Deadmau5 Quotes

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

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 love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

Look at YouTube, how many talented people there are. It's a whole new world of how to express yourself. I don't know how to work that world, but take advantage of it.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.