Nina Tassler Quotes

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

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.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

Jeph Loeb has been great to work with, and he's been really supportive of some really bizarre ideas I've had.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.