Jock Sturges Quotes

I can concentrate on my art.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

Art is an investigation.

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

I love art more than anything in the world except for my family.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

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.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in.

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far.

If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale. Fiction is closest to pure narrative, and pure narrative is simply the logic we try to impose on an ever-changing reality.

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

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