Vicky Krieps Quotes

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!

And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.

Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory!

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

Design is an unknown.

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is capturing unbridled emotion and putting it on canvas. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.

It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.

I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

Crafting is putting ideas into action and then holding them together with an inexpensive adhesive.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.