Neil Gaiman Quotes

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!

Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

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

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Sometimes with Polaroids, the shot you want to get in your head doesn't happen. What it makes me do is be patient, I guess, or let go of that presumption of what the shot's going to be.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

So many of my paintings, people would be like, 'What more do you have to do?' But the smallest little things make all of the difference.

I don't think I've ever made something that I'm totally satisfied with. That feeling of doubt, or wanting to do more, is my engine to move forward and make the next iteration.

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.

We kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times.

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me, I see no courage or adventure in doing the old thing over again. If others want to, that's for them. For myself, I have to move on. Life is too short to live in the past. There is a lot to be done.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

The whole point for me is to change as much as possible. If I've done one movie, I've done that, move on.

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.