McG Quotes

It's fun being creative and that's satisfying.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

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.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe.

I love the joy in the improvisational creative process.

The joy of creating is the truest joy.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.

The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don’t, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won’t be seen as being original, somehow.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

When I was living in Mexico, I started reassessing my drawing style, and plunged into a period of doing exercises and research to develop a new way to draw. The result was a style that implies more than it shows, and so, ironically, feels more "true" to the scene I want to draw than a style that is more specific. It seems to me that the reader's imagination is able to fill in the gaps more effectively than I ever could. Plus it's a lot faster and more fun to do.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

There's a responsibility to the story, but there's also the sense of fun you have. When everybody else leaves, you get to continue to create. For me, there's no other way! I really like creating from the ground up.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.