Quotes About Creativity

I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

It's imperative that I have another channel to pour ideas into, that have been with me for quite a while, that it would be hard for people to kind of accept on first listen. Some of that would be more classically based stuff and some more jazz based.

Because obviously when we write our music, we pour our heart and soul into it. I put everything into my music... I just feel like, I want people to actually hear what I have to say.

Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.

I've had so many experiences with film or musicals or books where I just walk away changed in some way. One of the things that makes me want to be a writer is to pour my heart into something and hope that I can affect someone in that same way.

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.

Maybe many directors are trying to create their own style of filmmaking, or to respond to audiences that come expect a certain style from them. But I don't care about that - I don't intend to have a 'Miike' style. I just pour myself into each film, enjoy it, and then what comes out just seems to have a 'Miike' style.

Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside.

When you're making music, you're creeping up on your heart and pouring it out into something.

Sometimes when you start improvising on stage, which I do a fair bit of, obviously you haven't planned it. But to be honest, it's not like I'm one of these blokes who is sitting at home pouring it all out and then does a different thing on stage.

I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing left and I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore.

I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know?

Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

Ideas are more powerful than people.