Brian Stelfreeze Quotes

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

The thing about working on a Ryan Murphy TV show is that he has such an extraordinary collective of artists, so everyone is really like a family.

I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them.

When I came to L.A., I absolutely fell in love with the energy of the place. It's such a creative hub, so as a storyteller, there's nothing better than when you're surrounded by people who think like you and have the same goals as you.

When you open your mind up, and you go into a creative state, you can't just switch if off. When you have an idea, a creative impulse, and then you ignore it, it can keep you up when you just want to go to your bed - which is why it's great to have voice recorders on your phone!

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

When you're in a creative flow with somebody - and I had this back in architecture school - you're just so passionate about what you're doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you'll be madly in love with them. It's just that thrill of creating.

Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song - where the song just starts writing itself.

When I travel, I connect with creative people in all different fields and disciplines. It's sort of just to keep my finger on the pulse of what's going on. I think that's important.

Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

I don't really engage much in the creative community. I just kind of keep to myself and do my work.

If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy.

New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.