Quotes About Creativity

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.' It's never really been my thing.

I don't see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear 'pop,' you're like, 'Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,' and I feel like, 'Uh-uh. That's not me.'

There is no pop category, let alone any infinitely gene-sliced genre name, to contain the lead in Rihanna's voice in 'Needed Me.'

Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.

Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.

'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.

I never set out to be a groundbreaking artist in the sense of doing something that's never been done before. I set out to make stuff that communicated quickly and effectively, playing off of advertising, pop art, and pop culture.

If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.

The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

I look up to people like Michael Jackson because he set up pop culture.

I make pop culture.

The movies 'Dope' and 'Straight Outta Compton' blew me away. I love seeing directors and writers of color make amazing slices of pop culture.

I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.

Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.

We don't want to make little pop culture ephemera or confections, that sort of thing, and so 'ParaNorman' like 'Coraline' has something meaningful to say.

I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.

Pop music doesn't challenge anything.

I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.

I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.

We're all big fans of pop music; this is definitely the direction we've always wanted to head in.