Michael Gracey Quotes

If you make music with business in your head, it'll show. I make it from the heart. There's a difference.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

Talent works, genius creates.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

I want people to think I'm a creative genius.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.

You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody else's idea that's not yours. So when you're creating, that's the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.