Ralph Fiennes Quotes

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.

In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

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 always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired.

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

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

It's a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don't exactly know how they're going to turn out.

What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.

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