Rithy Panh Quotes

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.

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

You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.

I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I like to draw late at night when the house is quiet.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

When I write I find a quiet place.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

I can concentrate on my art.

I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography - any of the arts - you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.

I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all.

I get a lot of ideas sitting in the living room staring at the walls or lying in bed thinking about things.

The stressful time is the blank page at the beginning. When you're starting to see things being made flesh, and you're able to respond to that flesh, that's really exciting.

When I'm sitting at my drafting table in my studio, I could really be anywhere.