Wavy Gravy Quotes

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

True play is creativity.

I think, in big-budget movies where everything seems so poured over and restricted and the studio wants to examine every frame to make sure it's vetted properly, you lose a little bit of playfulness.

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe.

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release.

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

Balance is the enemy of art.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.