Ellen Key Quotes

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

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

In imagination, there's no limitation.

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

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

I believe in creative work.

I just want to be able to be creative.

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

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

I like being creative.

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.

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to that art.

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

Art is the daughter of freedom.

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

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

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.

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

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.