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Artistic process Quotes

"When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it."

"I believe that to create good work, you need strong emotion. You need to feel something deeply."

"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time"

"I can't control how people are going to interpret my work."

"When you want to do something creative and you have taste, and your taste is good but your skills aren't honed enough to do it."

"The fun of writing lies in the creation, not in the recognition."

"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first "

"You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood"

"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."

"If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash really the fun stuff"

"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."

"I wrote a song, but I can't read music, so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while, I'll be listening to the radio and I say, I think I might have written that."

"To draw you must close your eyes and sing."

"The artist must actively cultivate that state which most people avoid: the state of being alone."

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "

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