Michael Douglas Quotes

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

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

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

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

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

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

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

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

You never know what an artist is going to create next.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

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

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.