Finn Balor Quotes

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she's walking over. It just amused me.

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.

See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.

I may find myself changing my notions about what I want to do right in the middle of a film. And on days when I'm feeling merry, I shoot merry scenes, and on gloomy days, I shoot gloomy ones.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

I don't really dissect too much when ideas come - they just kind of pop into my head; I just take them and run.

I've found in the past that if we planned the show a night before, once we slept and woke up, we weren't in that mood anymore. Because I really think doing a live show means you should be exploring your live feelings, and planning is not good.

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've seen to an expression I've heard someone use.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love about what I do.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.