Pure Creativity Quotes

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.

Everything I do creatively is never for money.

Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

Genuine music, to me, is the one which has no purpose. It should be as natural and as purposeless as the flow of the river.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.