Nick Woodman Quotes

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

The last thing I wanted was a big paycheck but no inspiration or support.

If a film works, you get more offers, appreciation and the latter is like oxygen. We survive on that.

All the appreciation I have been receiving has been very encouraging. It pushes me to do better.

Any good film you see gives you enough motivation and adrenaline rush to produce good content, while a bad film can get you so angry that you produce even better content.

I feel good when my films get all the love, respect, and appreciation. That is my driving force to do better work in future.

I kind of lose my mind a little bit if I'm not making something.

Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. It's just not where things are at right now, and it's just a matter of time until there's something going on where I feel compelled to write.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

The fans are the motivators that keep me creating my style of content.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

I’m trying to please myself; certainly that’s a big criterion... though in a sense, I don’t take images just for myself. I take images that I think other people will want to see. I don’t take pictures to put in a box and hide them. I want as many people to see them as possible.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

Art is competitive.