Ricky Gervais Quotes

I don't understand how people live without creating.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

Between films you try to fill your life with hobbies; acting is really so satisfying when you're doing it, and definitely feeds your imagination and creativity to a great degree, but you can't really take much away from it to show for it. I try to fill my time with other things.

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

I want to feel creative when I'm working. I don't want to just work for the sake of working.

If I don't create, I don't exist.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

I like to be doing something creative.

I think being creative and making something that you can look at is so good for your brain and your soul. Nothing beats it.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Your unique creative talents and abilities are flowing through you and are being expressed in deeply satisfying ways. Your creativity is always in demand.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

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!

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!