Damon Dash Quotes

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

I can concentrate on my art.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

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

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

I'm a creator at heart.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Art is giving to what you create a soul.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

Life and art are inseparable.

You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in the details and make something that feels like it's yours.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.