Marianne Elliott Quotes

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

Imagination decides everything.

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

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

It's nice to have a variety in creative work that I like to do.

Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.

There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.

I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity.

For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.