John Steinbeck Quotes

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

Creativity is very self-indulgent.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

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

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

I just want to be able to be creative.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble.

When I approached my own movies, I went in it real innocent. I didn't pay attention to nobody else's score. I was just going to do it with how I feel it should sound. To me, that's how you create new things.

Creative instinct is personal.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction.