Joe Grant Quotes

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

It is always possible to create something original.

To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

I love being creative in all forms.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

To create something you must be something.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.