Quotes About Creativity

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up.

I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

Since when was genius found respectable?

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

The way to respect all the people I love is to eat the music, have it in my blood and bones, and try to explore it in as much different ways as possible to create my own identity.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.