J. August Richards Quotes

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

I love to be creative.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

I have fantastic ideas.

I love being creative in all forms.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I believe in creative work.

I just want to be able to be creative.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

If you think too much about playing an icon, it will immobilize you. You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.