Sherwood Anderson Quotes

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want

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

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I love being creative in all forms.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

That's the thing about creating. When you create, you create your own thing, whatever that is. It's always going to seep through in whatever you do.

It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

Trust your creativity.

There are so many different ways to make art. And so many good stories. You don't have to have a budget. I feel like it's super possible these days for people to make anything, no matter who you are or where you come from. And that's really exciting. I'm excited to see people around me pushing boundaries in that way, not letting certain structures define them or what art they can make.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does.