Ronnie Dunn Quotes

You can't slot a time and a space and think 'ok now it's time to sit and compose.' It just doesn't work like that for me.

There are some projects where you have to just start doing it, and, after a while, the show starts telling you what it wants to be. You put your spirit in and, after a while, something bigger takes over, and it turns out to be much more fun and creative than what it was at the beginning.

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

Talent works, genius creates.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

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.

You can't rush inspiration.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

You're best off when you're part of the centre of the creative universe.

I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.