Miguel Quotes

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

True play is creativity.

I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

However varied you try to make your work, you still bump up against the end of you. You keep knocking into a wall, and the wall is your own skull. But when you adapt somebody's work, it's like a door into somewhere else. It feels like a holiday from myself.

I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

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

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

I'm always looking to make something that didn't exist before, fumbling about in the dark, not just while making a collection. The search for something new is a constant in my everyday life. But constantly searching for something new is like looking for a well in a desert.

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.