Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep inside you and making something out of that.
Interpretation
Creativity stems from inner feelings rather than external pressures to produce.
Max Richter highlights the struggle that young artists often face in feeling pressured to create constantly. He suggests that true creativity comes from a deep personal connection to one's feelings and experiences, rather than from conforming to external expectations or demands, which can hinder artistic development and expression.
In practice
This quote can be used during a workshop for young artists to inspire them to trust their creative process.
I'm suspicious of the idea of categories in music and this idea of things being in boxes. To me, that seems unnatural. I write the music that somebody with my biography would write, and the thing that's always driven me is an enthusiasm for the material. I sort of follow the notes to where they want to go.
All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.
The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I want to get across. Because I'm a composer, music is my first language, and that's what I reach for when I want to convey something.
When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.
Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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