Expressive Freedom Quotes

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there... I think of it as my serious playground.

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

Halloween is one day of breaking out of your shell, one day you can be completely expressive, where the world gives you license to dress up.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

I spend a lot of time in Paris, in Milan, and in New York, and Rome is a little bit different. There is something in Rome, incredible, like in a Fellini movie. Everybody's screaming and laughing very loud. It's something that can give me more energy in terms of freedom.

Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.