Unrestricted Creativity Quotes

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

I like characters in life, generally; I don't like to see a collection modelled on a homogeneous look. That terrifies me.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

The whole thing that drew me to doing an animated film is that you're freed from the physical limitations of your physical body. All of a sudden, you get to be something that has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a 6'4", lumbering dude, and that is really exciting.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

For a long time I was free. I didn't belong to any type of studio, or any company. I kept a sort of freedom and a light touch.

I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I'm fine that way. I don't need to be faithful to any concept, you know.

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

I definitely want to continue working in independent films - and big budget stuff as well - but there's a freedom you have when you're not getting paid. It's easier to say no and there's no pressure to please the powers that be. Also I don't have to hear 'flirt and smile more.'

There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

I try to stay away from any genre. I like to just make music, and it just is what it is.

The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

We didn’t want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive. It’s very rare to be able to do that. It’s completely pure.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.