Amy Sherald Quotes

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

Trying to show people something they haven't really seen before can get a lot of push-back.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.