Sasha Pivovarova Quotes

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

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

It's funny, because you want to make it different, but when I start building a character I do the same thing with each of them, which is start with a blank canvas. It's like painting a picture.

Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

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

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

Writing is a form of licensed madness.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.