Brandon Boyd Quotes

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

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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

I love to be creative.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I believe in creative work.

I have to be creative to be happy.

I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

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

I enjoy being creative.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

I love the joy in the improvisational creative process.

The joy of creating is the truest joy.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

Serious art is born from serious play.

Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.

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.