Samuel L. Jackson Quotes

Normal people do not create art.

If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

It used to kind of upset me when I'd be working on a part in my hotel room, and I'd get an idea for a song and find myself on the guitar for an hour when I should be working on my lines. But I've discovered that when I start to shake up my creativity it wants to be expressed in all kinds of different ways. They all kind of inform each other.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Art is both creation and recreation.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

The joy of creating is the truest joy.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.