Josh Trank Quotes

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

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 love to come to L.A. because it's one of the most inspiring places because there are no rules.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

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

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

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

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

When I'm at home creating music, I usually wind up laughing. It's always, like, funny - like, what the hell did I just write?

Maybe you have a particular type of sound you want to go for, but if you really want to be original, there's no real recipe for that. For me it's just about letting it come to you... if you can let your head clear out, then almost anything is available.

You know, we never really know what we're going to write next. Which is part of the excitement when we go in and do a new album. No battle plan, we just go in and do it and what comes out, comes out.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

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.

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

I can't know what I'm going to do before I'm in front of the lens. And I think that sort of makes it exciting.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.