Unplanned Art Quotes

I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There's nothing set or pat.

When I am making a film, it's very instinctive, it's not preset.

Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.

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

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.

I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make. I was just making raps and stuff. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.

My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing "To the Last Whale" and "Find the Cost of Freedom". Stills coming up with "For What It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.

The best stuff comes out when you're not making it for anything and you don't really know what you're making.

I don't digitally manipulate my images, because I am interested in the spontaneous act of creating images without forethought. I know many artists start with an idea in mind, and then they put it on paper. I don't work that way.

I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.

I draw whatever hits me.