ASAP Rocky Quotes

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

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

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

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.

Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

There's something about coming up with something out of nothing. I work with somebody else's creation already, and I just try to make it better.

You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.

Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative.

You should have something to say, an idea you want to get out, and if you don't, just get out of the way, 'cause there's so many great musicians and writers that are in the queue.

Some directors are like poets.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry