Richard Avedon Quotes

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

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.

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

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

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

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

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

Definition is the death of discovery.

I just want to be able to be creative.

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

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

I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.

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

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

I like being creative.