Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

The emotional power of creating something... Nothing gives me as much joy as that.

I think being creative and making something that you can look at is so good for your brain and your soul. Nothing beats it.

My art completes my life.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.

My compulsion is to create things.

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

A design that I create is like my own extension. It's 'thinking made visible.'

Composing is an emotional thing.

The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

I enjoy being creative.

Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.

Creative process gives me the most freedom because I can do anything I want on a piece of blank media.