Craig Ferguson Quotes

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

The beautiful thing about art is that there's always somewhere to go. There's always something new to explore and, as an artist, that's just what I want to do. I wanna keep exploring new things with different directors with different producers and different styles and tones.

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

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

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

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

I don't study; I create.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

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.

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

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

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.