Free Creativity Quotes

I just want to be an artist that makes exactly what he feels.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Art simply can’t be stopped.

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist is fluid. If you look at a painter's work, a lot of times, it's similar in style, but other times - over even a year's period - it can change so much. I'm just going with the flow.

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.

I never felt like I had to sound like my dad. I wanted my music to be creative expression with no expectations.

In the 1960s and into the '70s, everyone in their own way was trying to open up the musical horizon. There shouldn't be a wall that you're going toward and bouncing off.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.

I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.

Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

There is no must in art because art is free.

It feels a lot freer doing a comedy.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was.

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.