Claude Debussy Quotes

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I believe in creative work.

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

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

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

I love to be creative.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

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

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Make good art.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

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

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.