Alessandro Michele Quotes

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

That's the most important thing in art: to be aware, pay attention, be inspired - but it should come ultimately from you.

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

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I love to be creative.

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

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I believe in creative work.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I can concentrate on my art.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.