Shia LaBeouf Quotes

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom.

I sing, but I also like to write. Creativity is the best part because you're then in your own zone and can talk about whatever you want to talk about - it lets you be free.

I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild.

I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

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

I love being creative in all forms.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.