Roisin Murphy Quotes

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

You always want to be innovating and creating what's next. Versatility is also really important for a producer.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

We haven't shed our engineering pragmatism, so we accomplish things in the simplest manner possible. It helps with budget, obviously. We're not getting rich off web video, and we're supporting two families with our income, so we need to keep as much of the budget to ourselves.

If I can utilise anything, I'll utilise it.

I believe that your creativity increases when you evolve with changing technology.

I've always been a very visual creator. I make mood boards or sit with coloured pencils and scribble and try and figure out what I'm trying to work through musically.

I chose to do art in the way I always do it, which is with all the crazy contradictions of life in there.

I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Just do the best with what you have, and you'll soon be doing it better.

The eye is the best of artists.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.