Josh Trank Quotes

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

I think we've all been in the middle of doing something we cared about, when someone coming in the room and saying 'hello' was annoying. I personally can understand that, as someone who tries to create.

I can concentrate on my art.

I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.

I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that's not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it.

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I never listen to music when I write.

I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.