Thomas Newman Quotes

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

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

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I love to be creative.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

Shooting should not be about delivering something I've prepared; it should be a live process of finding things out. When things happen that you haven't planned, that's when the film comes alive.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.