Effortless Creation Quotes

Any art that you are playing based on effort, loses something. I think that most of the time it should be something that happens, and you are inspired, and you just feel and follow your instincts. The best chiseled sculptures happen when the sculptor looks at the stone and says "I saw this sculpture in the stone, and I had to get it out." It's not contrived.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to do.

God brings millions of flowers to bloom without force.

It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.

I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.

I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.

I create easily and effortlessly when I let my thoughts come from the loving space of my own heart.

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought you have in your head grows in front of you without any mistakes; no rubbing out, starting again and getting frustrated. It’s like being in a trance - it’s a fluid - and you almost don’t remember doing the picture. Drawing is an escape from all the unnecessary things in life that get in the way of being free.

I filmed my first vlog and I think it worked because I wasn't trying to make it work. I was just doing it for my own enjoyment.

Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored and overworked, and you can read in it as well - she did this and then she did that; there is something in it that has not got to do with beautiful art to me. And I usually throw these out, though I think very often it takes ten of those over-labored efforts to produce one really beautiful wrist motion that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it, and therefore it looks as if it were born in a minute.

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.