Rodney Mullen Quotes

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

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

It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

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

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

I write so much and I release so much music that I think I'm less precious about that stuff than a lot of people.

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.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

I enjoy being creative.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

I don't understand how people live without creating.