Julian Barratt Quotes

I love to live in a magical place.

Poppy's world is a magical place, and it's the most free part of the entire universe.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.

I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Trust your creativity.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.

The aim of art is to create space.

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.