Adam Hughes Quotes

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that's not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it.

I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.

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.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.

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.

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

It's nice to have a variety in creative work that I like to do.

I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.

When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages, write, rewrite, paint over, and come back to it. In film, once you start shooting, you can't restart the clock, and you keep moving forward, and you don't look back, and you don't go back. And that is, of course, antithetical to the creative process. It's really hard to generate a comfortable creative flow under that kind of pressure.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.