James Spader Quotes

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

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

I just want to be able to be creative.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.

Creativity is very self-indulgent.

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

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

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

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

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

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

I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

I love to be creative.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.