Gavin Bryars Quotes

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

I like creating images.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

I love creating things. I love making things.

What I do enjoy is the creative process.

I've always had an appetite for creating in some capacity.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of paint to represent a haystack at sunset, to combine ingredients to make a flavorful dish. No one is born with that skill. It is developed through exercise, through repitition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time. . . . If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.