Wayne McGregor Quotes

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Anyone in the arts has had an experience of seeing someone who they related to doing something and thinking, 'I could do that.' If you have one generation where you force its hand a bit, then the next one fills in the gaps, because it's seen an example of what can be done.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

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.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.