Lenny Kravitz Quotes

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something and I tend to feel like it's leading me and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

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

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

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

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.

I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.

You can't rush inspiration.

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

I had an interesting moment with 'Wonder Woman' where, when I first thought about doing 'Wonder Woman 2,' I thought, 'Well, these are so intense, making these movies. It's a lot to think about doing more.' But then I had an epiphany, and I thought, 'Oh, it's not more - it's better.'

Good films that get made are so few and far between. I want to write and direct more, but only so I can keep a fresh perspective.

I now know that inspirations must come from everywhere.