Flying Lotus Quotes

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

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

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

Sometimes when you're an artist, you need to be in your own head; you need to stay in it to be able to get to a good place.

I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.

You can't slot a time and a space and think 'ok now it's time to sit and compose.' It just doesn't work like that for me.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.