Jim Carrey Quotes

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

I don't study; I create.

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Since when was genius found respectable?

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it's tight, then the world is going to think it's tight.

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

With soccer, I have the ability to do things differently. That is why I admire Leonardo da Vinci. He was able to create things other people wouldn't believe in.