Virginia Woolf Quotes

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.

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

I love to be creative.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

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

I believe in creative work.

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

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.

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

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.

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

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

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

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.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

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 like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications of what I've done before, what I'm going to do, what other people think about my work, the failure or success of the previous play. I'm stuck with a new reality that I've got to create.