William Fichtner Quotes

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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

I love to be creative.

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

I believe in creative work.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

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.

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

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

Creativity needs discipline and freedom.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

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

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.