I don’t really separate them, they’re all the same thing. I don’t think children separate different artistic… they don’t separate themselves either. They don’t say as adults do “well there are artists and then there are other people”. Kids, if they want to draw they draw, they want to sing they sing, they want to pretend they’re The Lone Ranger or Aragorn or an elf or a monster they just do it, they don’t think about it. It’s only adults that make that distinction and I think that everybody, even when they grow up, is an artist, it’s just a way of living. Being an artist, […] it just has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
— Viggo Mortensen in 10 Questions, TIME, 2008