Nikolai Berdyaev 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.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I love being creative in all forms.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

That's the thing about creating. When you create, you create your own thing, whatever that is. It's always going to seep through in whatever you do.

It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.

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

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

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

I love the joy in the improvisational creative process.

Creativity is very self-indulgent.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

It is always possible to create something original.