Wolfgang Tillmans Quotes

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

I'm interested in creating new work.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

All men are creative but few are artists.

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.