Free Creation Quotes

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.

I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.

It's a great thing not trying to make music for a label but just for the love of music again.

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

I make songs that I genuinely enjoy and love, and just put them out kind of freely and carelessly.

You just wake up and make music.

I can be completely indulgent and spend as many hours and days or weeks as I like on one thing. Writing music and sitting in my studio, just pottering with ideas, it's a lot more personal and creative for me, I don't feel restricted.

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.

Artists can do whatever they want!

Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.

I feel like guys, girls, whatever it is, you just come out hoping to make the best record. You just try to have a conversation and just create what you've talked about. Whatever you find to fit the beat at the time, what the person is down for, wherever the beat takes you towards.

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.

I'm just having fun. I go in the studio, and I have no idea what I'm going to do, what I'm going to make. I'm going to make whatever I feel like making.

I think every artist wants to create something, on their own, without any boundaries.