Orlando Jones Quotes

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

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 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.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

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.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

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

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

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

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.

People always ask what my inspiration is, and it's never something that's easily explained.

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

You're best off when you're part of the centre of the creative universe.

My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.

Time moves too slowly for me to notice any evolution in my creative tendencies.

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

You just gotta record stuff and move on and make new material. Painters don't wait until they're in some specific gallery before they move on to the next painting.

Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.