Fred Wilson Quotes

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

The artist is called a creator.

I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good.

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed. Let me bring in what I want to bring in, and if something's wrong, just tell me about it and I'll make some corrections or adjustments. And that's what I do.

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

To me, it's not work. When I draw and I write, I find it relaxing. It's not like 9-to-5, where a man goes to a job and he isn't really interested in the job. Luckily, I get paid for doing what I'd do for nothing.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.

When things get tough... Make good art.

I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.

I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat.

Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?

Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.