Warren Ellis Quotes

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

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

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.

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.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

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 don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

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

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.

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.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

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!

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.