Kerry James Marshall Quotes

From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

I think everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms.

I would like to be as successful as Ian Botham was, but if I'm doing anything, I'm doing it as myself.

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

Art helped give me confidence.

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that's what I've always done.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

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

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

I've already created my own thing.