Bill Budge Quotes

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

Gary Ross is amazing. He's just - he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

Imagination decides everything.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

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

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.

I treat my projects as art.

I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that's not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it.

I understand, as an artist as well as a producer, the need for there to be mystery and surprise.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.

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