Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.

Creative instinct is personal.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.

Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

I think that anyone who is in any way creative or is creating something, whether an architect or fashion designer, I think if you have the opportunity to create something that is fully you, it frees your mind and your spirit and gives you the opportunity to really find yourself.

You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody else's idea that's not yours. So when you're creating, that's the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.

I've come to realize that at the end of the day, it's only you yourself that creativity comes from.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.