Creative Method Quotes

I think talent decides everything. More than the method, what's important is the talent using it. There's nothing inherently wrong or right about a method, whether it be pencil drawings or 3-D CG. Pencil drawings don't have to go away, but those who continue to use the medium lack talent. So sadly, it will fade away.

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

I've always written by myself. I've never been in a situation where the whole band sat in a room and wrote a song. I don't work that way.

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.

I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.

Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.

I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development.

Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the actors in my mind already, so I'm trying to borrow something that's unique to them. The characters have a very natural connection to the actors themselves.

On the first two albums, I essentially began with lyrics and placed the music underneath or around the words.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.