Ayn Rand Quotes

When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

I'm interested in creating new work.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

I believe in creative work.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

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 have such deep appreciation for artists who have the ability to create something from within, something completely unique and original to each piece of work.

Schiaparelli symbolizes the capacity to think and create in a different way.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.