Dianne Reeves Quotes

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

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

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.

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

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

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

I think that anyone who is in any way creative or is creating something, whether an architect or fashion designer, I think if you have the opportunity to create something that is fully you, it frees your mind and your spirit and gives you the opportunity to really find yourself.

I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them.

There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.

It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.

I follow my inspiration to wherever it goes. I do want the fans to feel the fun and excitement about it, and I like for people to be able to make their own interpretations about my work.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.