Bobby Flay Quotes

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

Creative instinct is personal.

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

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

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

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

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.