Uninhibited Creativity Quotes

I would never go to a studio. I need my space, you know what I mean? I need to be able to chain smoke and pace about, cry and like... spit. Just make noise, make a huge mess. I also feel like if I was concerned for the cost of the studio - like, 'this is costing 40 dollars an hour' - I wouldn't be able to work.

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Melody is pure intuition. I don't use any thinking brain when I do that. That's totally in the zone.

We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time, but before it has been knocked out of them, they see no limit to the potentialities of the human will. Theirs is the faith to move mountains, because they do not yet know the fearful heft of them.

'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

I wasn't really actively trying to pursue music, so I was really just allowed to create freely without any pressure or outside influences like, 'Oh, I should be making this' or 'I should be collaborating with this person.' It was just kind of like whatever I wanted to do. I was just having fun with it.

It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence.

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

Really I've just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

Making independent films is liberating. It eliminates self-censorship, which mainstream films are infected with due to commercial priorities.

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that I got from working as a team where everyone had equal say... ended up with compromised, watered-down results.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.

While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.