Loren Eiseley 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.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

Whenever I work on a role, I always allow it to subconsciously take me to a place that is magical and unexpected, rather than consciously driving it to a place.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

Blank paper has always inspired me.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

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.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

My painting does not come from the easel.

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

I am always locked in my design studio.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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

Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.