Steven Seagal Quotes

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.

The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

That's the thing about creating. When you create, you create your own thing, whatever that is. It's always going to seep through in whatever you do.

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

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.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications of what I've done before, what I'm going to do, what other people think about my work, the failure or success of the previous play. I'm stuck with a new reality that I've got to create.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

Creativity is really at the center of what I do, it's a mix of creativity, innovation and savoir faire that creates magical products.

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.