George MacDonald Quotes

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

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

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

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

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

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

The power of imagination is infinite.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.

I think it's better to have ideas.