Jim Lee Quotes

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Make good art.

All that I've done in my life thus far, all the poems and all the pictures, are not so much an intermingling of my life with art but a divine accident.

I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

Sometimes I'm on the pulse of what's happening in Hollywood, but other times, I'm just totally absorbed by what I'm creating on the easel.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

I believe in creative work.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.

You never know what an artist is going to create next.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.