Clive Barker Quotes

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

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

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

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.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

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.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

Creativity is very self-indulgent.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

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

I have fantastic ideas.

To create something you must be something.

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

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.