Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

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

I just want to be able to be creative.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

You borrow from the greats, and you make your own path without losing the core of who you are.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

I have been inspired by countless artists over the years, but there's also times when you just gotta make your own inspiration.

I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

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

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

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!

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

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

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

All I have, really, is my creativity.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.