Shepard Fairey Quotes

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.

Paul Gray - he believed in my art, and I believed in his music. Together, we decided to change the world, and that's what we did.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from poets and philosophers, from educators and ecologists, from postal clerks and miners and traffic cops and nurses and waiters and musicians and cooks and cleaners and from...Regular People Everywhere. That is to say, from YOU.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.

We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.

A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.

I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the small little ideas that creep up in your mind, often contain the germ of a much larger project. All great art wasn't born as great art. It first needed to be recognized by the artist him/herself. Through his or her belief in it, it became true.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.