Quotes About Creativity

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.

If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.

I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!

A Writer in Love.I was just a word weaverWhat did I know of love?Only thatSome days when the words weren't enough, I knewI was in love.

Oh, a grenade. But where is the bamboo bazooka?

Is he always like this?" she said irritably. "Flying by the seat of his pants?""Pretty much, yeah." Oliver grinned. "He's not a planner. But he happens to be the best improviser I've ever known.

I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!

Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Whenever I'm sad I just imagine if babies were born with mustaches.

I'm not used to writing about happy emotions, I'm just used to pulling from my sad or angry - happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.

Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

I don't think I have a sad life. I just talk about all my feelings and emotions.

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

I work as much as fifty to sixty hours at a stretch," Kusama wrote in a 1961 article of her entrancing, utterly consuming creative process. "I gradually feel myself under the spell of the accumulation and repetition in my nets which expand beyond myself, and over the limited space of canvas, covering the floor, desks and everywhere.

Creating art and writing novels and poems are simply different roads I have chosen in my search for truth.

O Time: hold still awhile. I have so much more work to do. There are so many things I want to express. But time just keeps ticking away, and the earth never for an instant ceases to turn.

Action Painting was all the rage then, and everybody was adopting this style and selling the stuff at outrageous prices. My paintings were the polar opposite in terms of intention, but I believed that producing the unique art that came from within myself was the most important thing I could do to build my life as an artist.

But because New York was the sort of place it was, there were also many artists with true backbone – robust people who could not be broken. And these artists were doing good work.