Virginia Woolf Quotes

I find time to write the way kids find time to ride their bikes.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

Every child dances, and then you learn not to.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

There's such a thing as being a little too perfect - a little too shiny. I know I prefer things that have room to breathe and give you a story, a world, in which you have the room to move around.

The lead of a film that wove around me, I played all the roles. I traveled the world; I loved life, pleasure. I adored to write, create.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

I believe in the power of play.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.

There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

When I started, I was 18 and really into punk rock and just wanted the action. Over the years, I've gravitated towards the travel and experience around surfing and trying to relay that feeling. Going forward, I'm interested in story-driven and personality-driven themes.

The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.