Peter McWilliams Quotes

For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

I just create, that's what I do.

As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.

If I don't create, I don't exist.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

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.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.