Joseph Campbell Quotes

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.

I worked at Disney many years ago. They just let me sit in a room for a couple of years and draw whatever I wanted to draw, so it's a very personal thing to me. Drawing and everything you do there is something meaningful and personal.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

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.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

I don't believe in writer's block.

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

A good director makes a playground and allows you to play.

Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.

Gutzon Borglum, the individual, is nothing. Art, expression, freedom are everything. On this I stand or fall.

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

I can't be on tour constantly if I really want to be creative.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.

There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.