Mick Fleetwood Quotes

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.

Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!