Robert Graves Quotes

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

Since I was a kid, I've always been obsessed with animation.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first. I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction. In another way, it's a crazy pressure. I try to stay quiet about the whole situation, because fashion itself can be crazy, and everyone wants a part of you.

When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.

Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.

In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

When things get tough... Make good art.

It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.