Jean Giraud Quotes

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Creative instinct is personal.

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

I'm a creator at heart.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.