Keri Smith Quotes

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.

How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

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.

You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.

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

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

As a filmmaker, like any artist, when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of dealing with my thoughts, my fears and my hardships. I think the same can be said with any artist. For a musician, you're going to write a song about something that affects you emotionally.

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

I just create, that's what I do.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.

I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.

I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

Every artiste has a process.

It's funny, because you want to make it different, but when I start building a character I do the same thing with each of them, which is start with a blank canvas. It's like painting a picture.

Even if you're not releasing songs, the act of creativity is important. That's the part I love, when you're in the moment. The rest of it I'm not particularly interested in at all.

I treat my projects as art.

Writing is an art, just like any other creative exercise - painting a picture, singing a song or dancing. It is an expression of your feelings.