David Mitchell Quotes

Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.

Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

I am creative with both my limitations and my sense that everything is possible.

Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.

If we can see past preconceived limitations, then the possibilities are endless.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.

You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules