Sante D'Orazio Quotes

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about art. If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you're doing and why, there would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda. It's more nebulous than that.

You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

When I wrote 'Grand Illusion,' I was making it up as we went along. I wrote this stuff and tried to do the best job I could.

I'd listen to a song and say, 'Hang on, I like that piano thing,' so I'd play the guitar like that and get the vibe from it, and it just evolved from the get-go. It was pretty obvious what to do; You don't think about rock n' roll: you just do it.

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.

The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.