Spike Jonze Quotes

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.

I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.

When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.

Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world to see.

Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I'm not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor.

Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

'The Storms We Share' has been a project that I've been working on for so long.

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

I'm always a bit disappointed when I've finished working on a book.

Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.

There are a lot of distractions when you're in creative industries like publishing or fashion or media, and it's a real blessing to have witnessed some of those up close at a young age. I think when you get past the glamour, that's when you get to the good stuff - the stuff that really feeds your soul and enriches you as a person.