Rajneesh Quotes

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

Make sure that everything you produce and create is organic to you.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

That which is imagined can never be lost.

The authenticity aspect is pretty important to me. When we have to compromise and do something that's not authentic, it really rubs me, every time I have to see it in the edit, which is millions of times.

The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.

Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've never had before, and that you write fast in the thrill of the new. No rules. Just stories, and you tell as many of them as you can.

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

I've now learned how to do it, I can write anywhere. I'm the type of person that will get a random idea and then I'll have to write it down and then continue on it. It can be anywhere. It doesn't have to be a set place.

A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren't good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.

The spirit that America has, the American industry creativity it has where anything is possible. Three idealistic Australians bringing in new ideas and being able to make the damn comic books that they've always dreamed about, it's kind of a cool thing.

The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.

Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!

I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.

Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.