Andrew Motion Quotes

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.

Ice shows give us the opportunity to forget ourselves and just perform. They are amazing opportunities to be in front of audience to try out new material, to show new costuming. It's an incredible opportunity to do what we do without the stress of worrying about what a judge is going to say.

We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.

I don't want to ever be categorized. I want to be able to hit every genre.

I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to the art form. If you try to rein in an art form, it can be hurtful to what you are making.

I love dabbling in various genres and languages.

As an artist, I do not want to limit my skills to one medium alone.

There's a part of me that wants to let all the different moments of 'Wild World' to have their moment and be released properly.

Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.

I look to a lot of artists who don't focus on one medium, who you can't pigeonhole.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and the whole cloth. It kind of freed up the analytical part of my brain and I had the opportunity to use more of the creative side of my brain for how things interact with light and integrate into stories.

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of ideas and thoughts that you have and just have to put them out there. It's not even about making perfect sense - it's more about making perfect nonsense. I don't do too much soul-searching or self-analysis. I just enjoy making things.

I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play.

I'm allowing myself every opportunity, every tool that every other artist should allow themselves to use. If anybody expects me to not use certain language or certain words, like I have some kind of penalty restriction, it's completely unrealistic.

I try never to say no when it comes to creativity, but I do try and lead down an "appropriate road" - like not on furniture or the walls.