Ken Robinson Quotes

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!

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

A good director makes a playground and allows you to play.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

I think that anyone who is in any way creative or is creating something, whether an architect or fashion designer, I think if you have the opportunity to create something that is fully you, it frees your mind and your spirit and gives you the opportunity to really find yourself.

Gutzon Borglum, the individual, is nothing. Art, expression, freedom are everything. On this I stand or fall.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes, so that it's really left open for a lot of things, even though I remember a specific impression of something I had at the time. I can't say a song is about this or that; in fact, I wouldn't even want to. I just prefer to have people live it anyway they want. Because it's theirs after that. There's nothing I can do about it anymore

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

I worked at Disney many years ago. They just let me sit in a room for a couple of years and draw whatever I wanted to draw, so it's a very personal thing to me. Drawing and everything you do there is something meaningful and personal.

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.