Guy Laliberte Quotes

Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.

You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

When you get to really involve yourself with a piece and the other people, and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think.

To a certain extent, just like my children, I nurture my writing until the point when it has to get out and face the outside world, where it takes on a life of its own. That is a purpose of any artist and their art.

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.

Even if you're not releasing songs, the act of creativity is important. That's the part I love, when you're in the moment. The rest of it I'm not particularly interested in at all.

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

Just knowing you're putting something out there that could take on a greater life - that's our sweet spot. That's what we try to do.

Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

My songs are like kids. I love them all. I encourage them to grow, to reach their full potential, and then send them out into the world.

I've been lucky to have things come to me that creatively fulfill me, and those are usually the independent films just because you have a little bit more freedom.