David Grossman Quotes

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

I sing, but I also like to write. Creativity is the best part because you're then in your own zone and can talk about whatever you want to talk about - it lets you be free.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Play and write music the way you want the world to be.

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.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I live for the blank page.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice.

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now, what am I gonna do later.

The day I write my last word will be the day that I feel free.