Quotes About Creativity

I dont think anything we've ever done has ever sounded the same. But we have that same vibe whatever we do because of our vocals.

In my own studio, I can just lock the door and record myself, do layers of vocals not knowing how they are going to turn out, and just scrap it if it doesn't work. It's my space. I'm running everything.

The vocals are aggressive not because I want to create an evil voice or anything like that, but because when I sing about angry things that's the way it comes out of me.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

You really can't pigeon hole yourself into one particular artistic area any more; the days of one vocation in the arts have long gone.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

If you are creative enough to select the ideal vocation, you can win, win big time. The really brilliant millionaires are those who selected a vocation that they love, one that has few competitors but generates high profits.

Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.

There are so many new young poets, novelists, and playwrights who are much less politically committed than the former generations. The trend is to be totally concentrated on the literary aesthetic and to consider politics to be something dirty that shouldn't be mixed with an artistic or a literary vocation.

My days at the Studio sustain all the work that I do today. They gave me a sense of legacy, a sense of belonging, and a community that made me believe in my talent and vocation.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

My first vocation was dance.

I saw my father writing songs and he would include me in the process when I was little so that kind of sparked my interest for the vocation.

Other people's films are like a cocktail, a little alcohol with water and juice. My films are like pure vodka.

'Vogue' is a fashion magazine, and a fashion magazine is about change.

Confusion seems to have become the vogue of European directors.

I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

Who doesn't want to shoot for 'Vogue?' I remember updating my Facebook status to say 'Doing 'Vogue' today', it was so exciting. I thought it would be really intimidating, and I don't like photoshoots, but that was the most relaxed one I've done.

People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.