Anthony Storr Quotes

You can't rush inspiration.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Nothing really came, everything was like inspired by something.

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

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.

If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy.

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

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.

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.

I think it's really important to not talk about how you're going to release something until you've finished it. People are like, "What are we going to make? What are we going to do with it?" and it's just like, "I don't know, we're just making music. Then we'll talk." You can't always write something you're happy with; you can't force it.

I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

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

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.