Evan Rachel Wood Quotes

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

I've always taken a lot of joy in my work, but it's also been very results-oriented. It's kind of like, making the thing, and taking a lot of joy in that, as opposed to allowing myself to be transported by the work of my fellow musicians.

To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

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

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.

The fact that I'm in a group that inspires others artists is just heaven to me.

I'm getting in the studio with everybody I've always wanted to work with. That's the amazing thing.

I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them.

I want to interact creatively with the directors I work with - it's a thrilling way to work.

I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

So much of inspiration comes from collaboration with other musicians.

I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.

I don't understand how people live without creating.