Quotes about Creativity

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

Every year, I push myself to do something different - and push the boundaries a little bit more.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.

Kristin Wiig I think is brilliant.

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.