Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.
You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.