Michael Giacchino Quotes

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

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

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

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.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, create an object that has a life of its own, which transcends craftsmanship. That is a long road, and because it must be your own road nobody can teach it to you or find it for you. There are no shortcuts, no rules.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

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!

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

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.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.