Patti LuPone Quotes

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

Every artiste has a process.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

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

Even if you're not releasing songs, the act of creativity is important. That's the part I love, when you're in the moment. The rest of it I'm not particularly interested in at all.

I treat my projects as art.

What I hope 'Mastry' ends up doing is completely undermining or doing away with the notion that artists are a savant: that they do things that can't be articulated, driven by inner turmoil they don't have access to.

Just knowing you're putting something out there that could take on a greater life - that's our sweet spot. That's what we try to do.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect?

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.