Michael B. Jordan Quotes

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

Successful artists don't follow trends; they create them.

Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that's kind of our mentality in that state.

I like to work with the best artists, full stop, around the world, and just make things happen man.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.

I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.

That's one of the great things about creativity. You labor away in a room, and when you're writing a film, it couldn't be more of a solitary activity or a lonelier job, but if you then write a film that gets made and goes out into the world, it kind of flies away from you. It's not yours anymore.

Whether it's a song that might deviate from an artists' usual sound or even if it's still very much in their world, I think the more people opening themselves up creatively to collaborate with others, the better.

I get to do some unbelievably layered things. The material that I'm given is so complex, and I'm so grateful for it, so I welcome any opportunities to push boundaries.

It's awesome that we can make more and more movies that are crossing boundaries.

The best thing about my job is meeting people who are able to express their creativity in a way that suits them and gives them purpose.

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

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.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.