Jim Henson Quotes

I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

I think I am more liberated as an artiste in my late 40s.

I think that anyone who is in any way creative or is creating something, whether an architect or fashion designer, I think if you have the opportunity to create something that is fully you, it frees your mind and your spirit and gives you the opportunity to really find yourself.

Honestly, I still don't know a lot of artists, and I want to keep it that way for a while. I think that's why I might be quite original.

I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty.

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that's fun.

My parents always told me never be a follower, always be a leader. It's very difficult to do, to step out and be different and not follow the norm. If you want what's best for your team, you gotta be different.

I don't think one should be a slave to one medium.

I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.

I get excited to create things that don't exist in the same world as 'Hamilton' because that world is really well done and doesn't need me to inform it anymore.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

To be an artist that is fully original, it doesn't exist.

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

Most solo artists go out on their own and put their name on the record. I prefer to create little alternative universes.

I don't want to be set in music my whole life. I want to experience some of my youth not being Tom Misch, away from the expectations.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

I feel like I'm a creative, and I want to take advantage of that.

The thrill of doing television versus features is, in television, you get to focus more on the characters.

... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.