Quotes About Creativity

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

Fashion is a declaration of your own freedom.

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Creativity needs discipline and freedom.

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

Freedom is about what you can unleash.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.

If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.