Graeme Murphy Quotes

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

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.

If I don't create, I don't exist.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

This creating? It's my passion.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

Make good art.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

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.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.