Debra Granik Quotes

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

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.

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something and I tend to feel like it's leading me and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

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

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

I think sometimes with new characters, you can kind of hit a creative valley, and it's important to recognize when you're in that valley so you can get back out and get back to that peak.

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.

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