Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something - anything - far bigger than yourself.

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

To create something you must be something.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

I just want to be able to be creative.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

I've come to realize that at the end of the day, it's only you yourself that creativity comes from.

It's helpful to just hear things through friends' ears, people who know you well. I guess when I started Dirty Projectors, when I was, like, 20, I always imagined it would be kind of like an amphibious vehicle: something that could go with me wherever I need to go. That kind of constant change has been in the DNA from the beginning.

My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

I have been inspired by countless artists over the years, but there's also times when you just gotta make your own inspiration.

I always make a point to make my records different. Let's say I have a record that's influenced by hip-hop in an abstract way; for the next record, I'd try not to do that. They are all connected in a personal way but it's important not to repeat myself, because then I can always learn something about myself through my work.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

I try to do different things, beautiful things, to play the game the way I see it, and I think I'm doing it pretty well.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.