Colman Domingo Quotes

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Writing 'Monitor Mix' was a very edifying and inspiring few years.

Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.

Regardless of any experiences in the past, for me it really is important to be engrossed in as much of the creative process as I possibly can. I was surprised with how much the eight years I spent on 'Castle' actually serviced that. I ended up, in a way, having a free education on that show.

For me, working on original material is very important.

There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I wanted to act. I wanted to write plays, and then I wanted to film and to paint, but I felt that film had a condition that reunites everything.

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

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

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.