Nate Lowman Quotes

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great cost to themselves usually, is another mystery. Works are not created by one's life; every life is rich in material.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

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

I view art as an inspirational tool.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist.

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

For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.