Creative Demand Quotes

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.

I've worked with everyone from Ice Cube to Snoop Dogg ... right across to working with pop stars like Justin Timberlake. Why those artists came to me is because they wanted my sound.

'The A-Team' compared to making 'Narc' was a breeze. There's a whole other skill set and whole other kind of bone structure that goes into making a movie like 'Narc' versus 'The A-Team.'

As a creative, as an artist, I'm just excited when people want my stuff, and want to experience it.

With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.

The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.'

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.

To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.

An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.

Fans are hungry for original artwork.

The hardest thing about being a manga-ka is that it's a weekly thing.

The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our movies that they not have anything to do with anything, that they be our never-never land; and if we demand this same function of our live theatre, what will be left of the visual-auditory arts - save the dance (in which nobody talks) and music (to which nobody listens)?