Raoul Dufy Quotes

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

There's no formula.

I try not to do anything by formula.

I don't study; I create.

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.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

There's no set way to do anything. Sometimes you have to go outside the box; sometimes you can do things the standard way. Like, you don't have to have a beat to write a song: sometimes you can write lyrics without the music.

When I'm making a song, I try not to think about audience or genres. It's free-flowing. Natural.

The best stuff comes out when you're not making it for anything and you don't really know what you're making.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.

I'm not someone who feels like I have to do it the same way. I never feel restricted. It all should grow out of different moments and if it goes completely different that's how it should go.

I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

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

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

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

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.