Lois Greenfield Quotes

Don't think too much. The best pictures come naturally.

I created 'You Can't Stop Me' without trying. There was nothing premeditated about that record.

If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about art. If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you're doing and why, there would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda. It's more nebulous than that.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

I am more spontaneous than my character.

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

When things become too prepared, the life comes out of it.

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

The whole 'I Told You,' there's nothing written. That was all out of the feeling. That's why the album is so incredible to me - it's all out of the heart; I didn't take time to pre-calculate it.

I really don't believe in planning my life. I am just going with the flow and following my heart.

Anything that me and Gucci do is never thought out or planned real deeply. We always just go off of what we feeling. It's sporadic.

I never had a plan; I always follow my intuition.

Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

I think, what happened with 'Dead Silence' is that other people told us that we should be doing that and now that I look back, I realize, 'should' is not a word that comes into an art. It's whatever you're feeling like doing.