Eric Cantona Quotes

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

Creative instinct is personal.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.

I care about being creative and productive.

Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.

I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

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

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

I love to be creative.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

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

I believe in creative work.