Shervin Pishevar Quotes

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 think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

I think being creative and making something that you can look at is so good for your brain and your soul. Nothing beats it.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

To create something you must be something.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

I just want to be able to be creative.

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.

I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

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