Artistic Process Quotes

"When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it." "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. " "Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen." "To draw you must close your eyes and sing." "I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else." "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." "If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash really the fun stuff" "I can't control how people are going to interpret my work." "You can't get tired in the studio. It's really tough to come out early or midway through the efforts." "I believe the best work comes from being vulnerable and open." "I take all of my insecurities and all my fears and channel them into my work" "When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time" "I believe that to create good work, you need strong emotion. You need to feel something deeply." "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better" "The fun of writing lies in the creation, not in the recognition." "The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth." "Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity" "The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first " "I wrote a song, but I can't read music, so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while, I'll be listening to the radio and I say, I think I might have written that." "The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."