Zoe Kravitz Quotes

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

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

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

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

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

I can concentrate on my art.

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in the details and make something that feels like it's yours.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

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 the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.