George Sand Quotes

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

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

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

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

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

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