Rick Rubin Quotes

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.

You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.

For me, music and life are all about style.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

Make good art.

I find inspiration in everything.

I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is. He has always been inspiring because he is never afraid to break rules or barriers or invent something new - and if you love fashion, then you need to be able to do that.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

I believe in creative work.

I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

When you're working with other artists, it's often a mix of your ideas with somebody else's, which can be extremely fruitful. But then it's also interesting to present the completely undiluted vision of what I imagine music could be. I care about both my own music and collaboration equally, and I pretty much split my time equally, as well.

Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.