Steven Stucky Quotes

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

A way into a creative mind is to really step into their shoes. Do what they love most or try out their art.

Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work, and it creates this strange connection.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

You are constantly looking for ways to do something you haven't done before, whether it's a particular role or doing theatre. As a person, I'm really open to experience.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.