Cy Twombly Quotes

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that's fun.

It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.

As much as you know it, and you know the method, you can pretty much do what you want. No idea is going to be shot down. You just put it in the garbage later. You have to say the lines in many different ways. So they have a lot of material to work.

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

What you create doesn't have to be perfect.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

You'd never be able to convince someone to give you money to do a bilingual story where you're not translating half of it - you'd drive people crazy. But in comics, you can do whatever your heart desires.

Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.

Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.

There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.

I wanted to create a more spontaneous outlet for my songwriting to have alongside the more long-winded process of making an album. I wanted to have some fun.

Creativity needs discipline and freedom.

Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself.

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

[In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.