Robert Motherwell Quotes

Creating and producing creative work, to me, those are all happy accidents.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

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 want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

Shooting should not be about delivering something I've prepared; it should be a live process of finding things out. When things happen that you haven't planned, that's when the film comes alive.

My films are so new and unique that I don't know where I will end up. Fear keeps me alert. And it's also a part of an excitement.

I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

The thing about the creative process is it's so chaotic.

Some of my best songwriting choices started as mistakes or learning curves, when I accidentally hit a 'wrong' key or something. I try not to lose that the more I learn the how's and why's of piano.

My initial ideas are just a starting place. As a record goes along, it becomes more about making discoveries and getting excited about new songs.

For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.

I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.

Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

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

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.