Robert Wilson Quotes

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

What I do enjoy is the creative process.

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them.

It's so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.

I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.