Jonathan Ames Quotes

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

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

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

Don't just consume things, create things

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

My compulsion is to create things.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

A day doesn't go by where I don't create something.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

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

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.