Lillete Dubey Quotes

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

Creatively, I try to always look forward and look at the next thing I want to do.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

I'm trying to make something every time that feels new and surprises people. Hopefully at least one person. But it's not like I turn it off. I don't make a movie and then go back to my normal life. When I'm finishing one movie the next day I'm thinking about the next one.

I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

I usually have one project I'm focusing on but often have many other projects in the back of my mind for several years.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

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

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.