Jack Bowman Quotes

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

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

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

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

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

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

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.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

It is always possible to create something original.

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

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I believe in creative work.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can.

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.

I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

I'm all about risque - I love that stuff. I love to be creative - that's what the entertainment business is about.

I'm doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I'll put whatever up there for the visible eye.