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Artist/
Künstler
Georg
Baselitz
11
" I was probably around 14 years old, it had something to do with showing off. I was able to do something which others didn't dare to do. And it still remains that way. ”
Actor/
Schauspieler
Willem
Dafoe
10
" I like making things because I like how it makes me feel. ”
Artist/
KÜNSTLERIN
Marina
Abramović
09
" If you wake up in the morning, and you have, to create something, and you have the ideas, and the urge is so strong, like urge of breathing, you never ask yourself: 'Can I breathe?' You just breathe. ”
Actress/
Schauspielerin
Angelina
Jolie
08
" If you can combine art with something you care about you can really educate yourself and make friends around the world and learn about other lives and other people and that's a different kind of art, that's the best art. ”
Musician/
MUSIKERIN
Björk
07
" It's just the way... I can't do anything else, I don't know anything else, but then again at the same time I don't feel that I'm that different from, say for example the rest of my family. ”
Musician/
Musiker
David
Bowie
06
" I think it has something to do with wanting to find a place where I can kind of set sail and know that I won't, really fall off the edge of the world, when I get to the end of the sea, that there is more and more sea to navigate. ”
Director/
REGISSEUR
David
Lynch
05
" There's really nothing more thrilling than getting an idea and then translating it, realizing that idea. Bringing something from the abstract to the material. ”
Artist/
Künstler
Ed
Ruscha
04
" It's like a boxing match, and also at the same time, these people that you're sparring with, these people that are your opponents, are also people that you want to impress, and you want their respect. ”
Architect/
Architektin
Zaha
Hadid
03
" I don't think it's something you're just born with, you have to work hard at developing ideas, you know, and this is what I'm talking about, creativity has to do with ideas. ”
Artist/
KÜNSTLERIN
Tracey
Emin
02
" I'm not dissatisfied with my luck and I still have this idea that I want to get better and better and better. ”
Nick
Cave
01
Musician/
Musiker
" It is the only thing that I know how to do properly in my life. ”
Mike
Leigh
01
Director/
REGISSEUR
" It takes forever for ideas to get through the system. ”
Artist/
KÜNSTLERIN
Sputniko!
02
" As artists you make works because you need to, you want to make the artworks. So just because an AI is making art that sells doesn't stop me from making artwork. ”
Musician/Artist/
Musiker/KÜNSTLER
Dieter
Meier
03
" With every idea you're diving into uncertainty, into chaos. And I think for example, also impatience gets in the way, if you want to achieve your goal right away, that leads to fear of surrendering yourself. ”
Actress/
Schauspielerin
Trine
Dyrholm
04
" It sounds weird but we all have our opinions and our intuition and stuff like that, but in the end, it's always another truth that is maybe the right one for this project. ”
Climate Activist/
KLIMAAKTIVISTIN
Luisa
Neubauer
05
" What hinders ideas has a lot to do with not believing in yourself, and being afraid to stumble. The fear of failure is really huge. That's true for everything. ”
Photographer/
Fotograf
Oliviero
Toscani
06
" Probably creativity is a vision in absurdity. You know, personally, I think that anytime you do something creative, you! that are doing something creative, you should be the first one to embarrassed of what you do. ”
Director/
REGISSEURIN
Adina
Pintillie
07
" At the same time, I think, if there is no wall to break, then what are you going to break? How can you get free from the prison? You need the walls. And you need the conflict I think, you need this tension. ”
Musician/
Musiker
Brian
Newman
08
" I don't know, life kills it sometimes, sometimes other people can kill it for you, it just depends on how you take it, how you take criticism, how you take the lumps, in life, determines how you climb out of it or you bury yourself deeper. ”
Director/
REGISSEUR
Lars
Kraume
09
" Well I think in order to be creative you need to have aggression. You can't move forward unless you have an urgent need to do so. ”
Youtuber/Journalist/
YOUTUBER/Journalist
Rezo
10
" Well, what obviously stops creativity, is when it's your job and you're forced to bow to economic circumstances. ”
Artist/
Künstler
Julian
Schnabel
11
" Art will spring up just like grass in between the cracks in cement, no matter what situations there are. ”
Mike
Leigh
01
Director/
REGISSEUR
" It takes forever for ideas to get through the system. ”
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