Gabe Newell Quotes

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

All art is based on non-conformity.

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

Trust your creativity.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public. Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my decision, and this is my creative vision, and if people don't like it, they don't have to see it.

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 Lucas was doing Star Wars, he didn't have a 50 million person Facebook following where he could just sift through feedback to try to get an idea for what he was going to do next. It's a luxury we have today.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

I want to see more young filmmakers, and specifically filmmakers who have a unique voice. I wouldn't mind seeing less of the attempt to force-feed people what others think they want, if that makes sense - whatever the formula is that some people seem to operate under, like needing a certain star, or needing a certain thing in order to get a piece made.

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.

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.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

Now there’s us, staking out our piece of cinematic turf (might be small but it’s ours). And the music has to fit the vision as specifically as it did for [Star Wars and The Matrix.] OUR music comes from THEIR music, this scrappled bunch. It is spare, intimate, mournful and indefatigable.

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.