Eric Fischl Quotes

You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

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.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to, you know, stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive.

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.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

People ask me, 'What's your next film?' And I never know.

It's the best thing, when you are in a creative space, discovering something and being enamored with it and excited by it.

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.

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.

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

As a composer, every project begins with either a blank sequence or a blank manuscript and for the first couple of days you cover and experience every emotion under the sun. Fear being the main one.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.