St. Lucia Quotes

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone again because it has left me for some other, better writer.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

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

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

I've never had writer's block.

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.'

There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

I don't believe in writer's block.

It's a manic-depressive life. You run in here, you open your incubator, your experiment makes no sense, you think, 'I hate this job.' Then ten minutes later you think, 'Well, now, maybe I'll try this or I'll try that.' You do it because you know there will be an 'a-ha!' day.

I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.

I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I've got to write a song every day.' I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I'm ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn't any more. It's just how it is.

I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.

When I'm working on something, if I went to an exhibition of an artist I respect, then I usually come home quite depressed and look at what I'm doing and throw it all away and start again.