Dominic Monaghan Quotes

Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project.

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 only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to, you know, stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive.

I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

Each production is its own experience.

Even if you're not releasing songs, the act of creativity is important. That's the part I love, when you're in the moment. The rest of it I'm not particularly interested in at all.

The artist is inherently a romantic to some degree, and as such, I believe in a muse. But I don't try to analyze too much where it comes from.

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.