Fearless Creativity Quotes

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

Don't be afraid to be outrageous; the critics will shoot you down anyway.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

I was meant to make music in my soul way younger than I did. I was just scared because I knew it would take more of me than anything else. But I was all into facing my fears.

Imagination is the voice of the daring.

There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

I like dangerous directors who like dangerous actors and dangerous productions.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get there; I just jump in first and see what happens.

Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.

'Waking the Fallen' truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots in heavy metal, punk, rock n' roll, and not being afraid to try everything under the sun when it comes to writing music.

Spike Lee is one of my biggest influences. What I love about Spike, other than he's just a fun guy to hang around, is that Spike is fearless. As much as people talk about him being politically outspoken, let's not forget that he's one of the best screenwriters, ever, in addition to being a visual master.

We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.

'Yosemite' opened doors for me in the New York theater community in amazing ways. There's a whole world of fearless young theater makers here who put shows together on a shoestring budget and with gigantic hearts.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

I know that it feels dangerous and scary and working without a net, so to speak. And working without a net, for me - maybe other women do it a totally different way - means being vanity-free. That's how, as an artist, I know that I need to work.

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.

If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.