Quotes About Spontaneity

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.

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

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.

I'd sleep in a little, work out, do laundry, run errands, buy presents for people with birthdays coming up. I like it when I don't have to be anywhere, and anything I do is my choice.

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

To work from nature is to improvise.

Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.