Anita Roddick Quotes

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

Society may shun bohemia, may put it down, may consider it useless and ineffective, but it is where everything cooks and boils and is created.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People who know what they are doing know the rules, and know what is possible and impossible. You do not. And you should not. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can. If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.

I do like artfully breaking rules.

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

Do the things that make perfect sense to you, [and] don't be afraid to shout it from the mountain tops just because it's outside the box or against the grain in your industry. More often than not, you're probably going to be right.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

All art is based on non-conformity.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

I never imagined myself doing a one-man show. If I'm going to do one, I'd rather do one that breaks all the rules.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.