Ricky Gervais Quotes

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Don't just consume things, create things

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

We all tell our own stories the way we live our lives. My story is: Life is too short to not believe in fresh voices. I don't have Hollywood stars. I have great American artists.

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

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

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

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

It's okay to be inspired by other people and it can be a useful learning tool to play other people's music, but let out what's inside of you.

Creative instinct is personal.

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

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Every stimulus becomes an opportunity to find fresh ways to express your personal vision.

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

Creativity is the power to act.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

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.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.