Tavi Gevinson Quotes

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

I don't understand how people live without creating.

With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art.

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.

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

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

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

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

I like to create.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

I'm a creator at heart.

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative.