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Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed. (Scott Adams)
It's very rare to be able to go to one person or one place and always be able to find something new. So in the same way that his bands found that about him, I think that he found that about me. We were able to adapt. (Carlos Alomar)
Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate. (Teresa Amabile)
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. (Laurie Anderson)
Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in. (Keren Ann)
In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you don't have that. (Jon Batiste)
There was an unconscious collaboration between artists. Whether you agreed or disagreed was of no consequence... What does happen when artists meet is that we are able to see more clearly the unfolding of character as time goes on. (William Baziotes)
Commissions are a collaboration of sorts since they reflect the artist's taste as well as the client's. (Phyllis Behar)
The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause. (Warren G. Bennis)
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator of a social architecture, and so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not been reached. (Joseph Beuys)
A painting might commence as a figurative, transparent watercolor, but after the two of us have had our 'what-are-we-going-for?' conversation, a completely non-objective, mixed-media work might evolve. (Avie Biedinger)
hybrid, n. A pooled issue. (Ambrose Bierce)
I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works... (Maurizio Cattelan)
Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions. (Chuck Close)
-of Dalziel & Scullion...
The most liberating thing is breaking away from that myth of the artist as 'special unique individual' - the solitary Kafka-like personality working away on their own and in suffering... it is far more enjoyable to discuss ideas with someone who has also invested in the work... (Matthew Dalziel)
Some face painters dislike all the questions that come with the job, but I love them. "Are you a real artist?" is my favorite... When they have chosen their design, I customize it to their specs. It's a joyful collaboration. (Alana Dill)
-husband and wife team, Charles and Ray Eames...
Whatever I can do, she can do better... She is equally responsible with me for everything that goes on here. (Charles Eames)
That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician. (Albert Einstein)
The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles. (Harlan Ellison)
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness... That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. (Brian Eno)
Every collaboration helps you grow. (Brian Eno)
I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience... (Frank Gehry)
A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment... some our best work. (Dave Genn)
What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best. (Dave Genn)
-on Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed...
Collaborating in art and life, Laurie and Lou focused on play, performance, creation, downtime, unfettered creativity and mutual critiquing... As partners, they built their higher selves. (Sara Genn)
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. (Andre Gide)
Working in collaboration leads to a rich dialogue yielding unexpected results. (Alexander Gorlizki)
You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall. (Chris Hadfield, astronaut)
In the evening by lamp or candlelight each showed the other his sketches. This was a time for criticism, encouragement and discussion... (Lawren Harris)
- as said privately to Robert Genn in 1961...
Independence is good for awhile. As a movement we were more readily noticed and believed in. And for a while there, we enjoyed each other's company. (Lawren Harris)
It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it. (Jim Hodges)
-on sketching trip with Tom Thomson, Fred Varley, and Arthur Lismer...
That autumn of 1914 was wonderful, with sunny days and frosty nights... In the evening by the campfire, we discussed plans for the next day while we cooked good, husky meals. (A. Y. Jackson)
I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people. (Jeff Koons)
I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration. (Talib Kweli)
Politeness is the poison of collaboration. (Edwin Land)
-on collaborating with Jay Moore...
Working with another artist is similar to a musical collaboration. We are starting with Jay's compositions, and I am helping him play them on a different instrument. (Geoff Lasko)
-to G. F. Watts...
Watts, if I could paint, and you could draw, what an artist we should be! (Frederic Leighton)
To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another. (John C. Maxwell)
I've selected some of my favorite songs from the best (in my opinion) artists from many different genres to give the world another understanding, perspective, and beauty of both individualized art and the combination of two creative minds. (Melissa S. McCracken)
Collaboration over time creates a different understanding of a subject. (Michael Michalko)
Let's you and I conjure together. You watch me and I'll watch you and I will show you how to show me how to show you how to do our marvelous human tricks together. (Courtney Milne)
I really like doing work that is a collaboration between customer and artist. It is a leftover from my days as a sign painter. (Maureen Moezeo)
Collaborating with a music composer forces one to think of painting as interpreting sound through colour and line - quite a challenge and different from looking at a subject and drawing and painting what one sees. (Alfred Muma)
The unconscious is our best collaborator. (Mike Nichols)
It's always a fun collaboration with my brother. I'm very fortunate to be able to work with him. There's an honesty to collaboration. There's a lack of a gender or ego in our conversations. And so you can really throw anything around. (Christopher Nolan)
- on his brother, Christopher Nolan...
I've always suspected that it has something to do with the fact that he's left-handed and I'm right-handed, because he is somehow able to look at my ideas and flip them around in a way that's just a bit more twisted and interesting. It's great to be able to work with him that way. (Jonathan Nolan)
- The Maybe...
I've done some collaborations which have ended up like Chinese whispers, but the most successful was with Tilda Swinton... Together we transcended our previous work and made something better together than we could have done apart. (Cornelia Parker)
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. (Amy Poehler)
With collaborations you never follow the same palette. (Robin Rimbaud)
It takes two people to enjoy a painting. The artist writes his story and the art patron 'reads' the work. (Cynde Roof)
Perhaps our work must be without a human buddy, yet a deeper relationship grows with something indescribable that assists us directly. This unseen energy is what we get to collaborate with, and sometimes it takes our hand and guides us profoundly. (Linda Saccoccio)
You have to be part psychologist and part politician to work creatively and collaboratively... (Nina Sadowsky)
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it. (Richard Schmid)
You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore. (Martin Scorsese)
- on promo video for Blur, interview with Tim Clark, 2004......
It was a collaboration with the animators so it's not just my work, though they were very simpatico. (David Shrigley)
I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world. (Kiki Smith)
Maybe somebody will end up being more the one that does the gluing, but it doesn't make any difference. We both take the pictures, set up the contact sheets. We both discuss the size, the color, the framing, the construction. (Doug and Mike Starn)
- interview by Ian Jack...
Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them. (Alexander Stoddart)
Leave enough ambiguity in your paintings so that there is room for the viewer's imagination to contribute to the experience, making it a collaboration. (Darla Tagrin)
Every collaboration brings unfamiliar nuances to an instrumental language that has become highly developed and essentially self-contained. (David Toop)
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. (John Updike)
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting. (Jimmy Wales)
In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions. (Errollyn Wallen)
I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow... (Judith Weir)
The moment someone other than the artist determines the 'product,' the product becomes a collaboration. How many signatures belong at the bottom of a collaboration? (David Wayne Wilson)
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together. (Henry Winkler)
Some collaboration has to take place in the mind... before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. (Virginia Woolf)
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