Quotes About Creativity

I think in 'No Burden' there was a lot of positivity on the record.

Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on Broadway.'

When I came out with 'Posse on Broadway,' I decided, enough with trying to imitate New York, enough with trying to imitate L.A., let's just be Seattle. And rock, grunge, followed right after 'Posse on Broadway' and Seattle just exploded.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Some people can sit and enjoy the view... some people like to take photos to feel complete. I need to somehow possess it in some other way. I just have to somehow grasp it and take it home in a more fulsome way. It's where ideas come from.

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

When I make a good beat, I'm possessed. I'm not on earth!

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

I got possessed by music as an infant.

You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.

I seem to have been possessed by a mind of my own and I did not merely want to be a pop product, but I wanted to be an artist which was always my ambition.

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

The most dazzling aspect of 'Possession' is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century.

You must not get too possessive, especially in our profession, where you know things aren't going to be easy. You can either drive the artist crazy, or you can help him or her grow.

I will always be possessive about creative independence - why is why I can't work with stars. I don't even let actors come to the monitor and see the shot.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.