Jil Sander Quotes

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I have to write. I have to be an artist.

When you receive a script and it leaps out at you and it's breathing with its own heartbeat - I suppose when you read something like that it's not a choice of whether you do it or don't. It feels like it chooses you, so you just do it.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

My compulsion is to create things.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

I'm the kind of person who lives my art. It's not that I want to necessarily do it: it's that I have to. It's always been that way. That's how I write songs, and it's always been this way.

I think it all comes from the same source, really, the writing of music, the writing of words, the playing of music. It's what drives anyone to be interested in the arts. I think it's a poetic gene; it's a wanting to go beyond.

People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that creativity out and to share that with others.

I'm an artist in my heart.

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

Creativity is connected to passion - that light inside that drives you.

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.