Quotes About Creativity

As a dancer, you're told not to go into it for the money.

I used to be a dancer.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

The innovation and creativity that's so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.

Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

Drag resists conservatism in the most basic way possible, and also in the most effective way possible, because it's improper when it comes to looks, which is everything in conservative systems.

British drama can compete with America creatively. But the two systems are very different.

Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.

That's the thing with electronic music, you set up systems to bring in an accident, to bring in quirks you didn't choose, but you still will have had to set up systems.

I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

I was at lunch with some friends one day, and we looked down at our table - blond pasta, blond pizza - and then someone joked, 'Blonde salad,' and it stuck.

When I'm sitting at my drafting table in my studio, I could really be anywhere.

It's all about the style and what you can bring to the table - how exciting you can be.

People in professional kitchens may love what they do, but sometimes it's just something that puts food on the table.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.