Reggie Jackson Quotes

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

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

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

I think I have some of my clearest thoughts when I'm out running.

With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.

Anything you can do to stay organized and free up the creative side of your brain is a good thing.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Clarity affords focus.

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

Man is an imagining being.