Shepard Fairey Quotes

I'm never going to be inspired by some obscure film, which isn't to say I don't enjoy that sort of thing. I just want to share my work with everyone.

I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

When things get tough... Make good art.

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.

Artists need to express.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.