Walter Bagehot Quotes

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.

When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems, things that can liberate my human condition, that make me go away... I spend a lot of the time doing nothing, just concentrating on the subject. Sometimes I'll sit in my chair for two or three hours without doing anything.

Looking back at it now, it's almost overwhelming, the amount of work that went into writing 'Shine', and to come up with the ideas that we're doing now.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

The magic happens in the creative studios. But sometimes you're inspired when you're removed from it a little bit. That's when the juice starts to percolate.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.

It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

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!

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.