Quotes About Creativity

I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer to it, and you have to cross things out. You put a line through it, but it's still there. You might need it. When you erase a line on a computer, it's gone forever.

I keep my hip-hop as hip-hop, my R&B as R&B and my pop as pop. The ability to cross those boundaries and do all these things effectively is not commonly done.

Every medium has its own kind of freedom. I don't want to just cross from one to the next. I want to enjoy the freedom each one has. Sometimes, you can do something for TV that you can't do in the cinema.

I'm like a cross between Bettie Page and Lady Miss Kier but a guy.

I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.

It's awesome that we can make more and more movies that are crossing boundaries.

I really want to do a 'True Blood-Six Feet Under' comic book crossover.

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

Doing DJ sets is like - is difficult to me. Cause you have to find that happy medium of playing what the crowd wants and what you want.

I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'

A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few. Creativity is crucial to your business.

I think that it's crucial. I think that playing live, if you want to be an artist - that's what artists do.

Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.

I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm laughing or crying.

I didn't give that name, the Rubik's Cube, and I called it Magic Cube because it's magic.

The Cube is approximately - it's around the same age as the Internet, and in that time, we had no personal computers yet.

Bubble cubes are central to what I do.