Lilli Palmer Quotes

Trying to force creativity is never good.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

You can't rush inspiration.

It's extremely hard work keeping fresh.

I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

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.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong.

...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.