Makoto Shinkai Quotes

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

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.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

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

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I can concentrate on my art.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Don't think it, ink it.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

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.