Jeremy Scott Quotes

When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

To walk into a studio, for me, is just like walking onto a beach or something.

Sometimes I need to go for a walk for inspiration.

I've written in the middle of a conversation or the grocery store or at another band's concert or in the last moments before falling asleep. It's pretty unpredictable. I think it's always flowing, and sometimes I'm not listening. There's no formula for when I'm going to be able to be a good listener to myself.

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.