Amy Sherald Quotes

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.

For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to be comfortable. If things are too tight or too constricting, I feel out of my element.

I'm very comfortable when I'm working; I don't hold back at all.

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house.

When I'm in that studio, I feel like I'm the king of the world. If I lose that, I'm going to lose a lot.

I think it's really important, especially with the work space, to create a place that makes people feel creative, where they feel safe, and they feel like they're instantly connected.

Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.

You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

If you want to create, you'll create.

I had no problem working for 15 hours straight when I was producing someone else, but I couldn't do it with my own songs. It took that moment of pointing the camera at myself to realize that it was okay to get lost in making my own music. I think before that I was scared of pushing myself to the point of staring into the abyss.

I think it's important to wear what you love no matter the trends, that will make you feel comfortable and confident.

You have to feel comfortable - then you can perform better.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

One of the things that helped me to be confident is to be the kind of musician that I respect. I always liked musicians who wrote their own songs, and so I started writing my own songs.

It's happy and secure people who the are most creative.

The most important parts of fashion to me are confidence and expressing who I am.