Trent Reznor Quotes

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.

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.

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!

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

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

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.