Alan Arkin Quotes

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

I do like artfully breaking rules.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

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

The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.