Quotes About Creativity

I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.

I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].

I don't make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.

I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget.

Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.

My music is like my freedom space.

The great thing, as a screenwriter, is that you are always proud of what ends up on the screen, you are able to create something in isolation and you have a lot of freedom.

We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.

With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!

It's really just a freedom that we have with Amazon to push ourselves creatively. It allowed me to say, you know, okay this is going to be a little half-hour film here to start the season.

I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

Kaz's art is a powerful example of discipline and freedom. His classical calligraphy captures the inner movement and stillness of the brush and mind.

I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.

How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

Inspiration is someone who gives you freedom to think out of his own ways. He doesn't want you to believe in his own ideas.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.