Ben Kingsley Quotes

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

Imagination decides everything.

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

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

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

It's impossible to feel the creative juices flowing if you're always worried about the end result. I think really, really good work comes out of people being quite open, not stressed, really exploring, trying to be imaginative, without worrying too much about the end result.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.