Private Creation Quotes

Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.

When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.

A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.

With my first three albums I did everything on my own. It was what I was used to and where I felt comfortable. I would write the lyrics and music and hide the songs from everyone until I felt confident enough for anyone to hear them.

When you're just making something in your room, you're not thinking that this box with a screen is gonna make you famous. You don't think you're putting yourself out there, because you don't see it on the other side.

I sometimes feel I want to release an album without people knowing it is me.