Quotes About Creativity

The importance of resolution over craft is one of the most important shifts in art making besides the creation of Photoshop .

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

Coleridge perceived as no one else had done that lesbianism could be a source of the sublime.

If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.

My answer is that I've found it an absorbing example of how a society can cling to policies and practices that serve no rational purpose. They persist because they become embedded, usually bolstered by those who benefit. Nor are the issues entirely academic. Making mathematics a barrier ends up suppressing opportunities, stifling creativity, and denying society a wealth of varied talents.

A work of art is...a bridge, however tenuous, between one mind and another.

I couldn't not write. Sometimes I ask myself, How do people get through life without writing? I write to calm anxiety, to process pain. Writing to me is reflection.

Thinking is an art because it requires you to listen to your thoughts and then do something with them.

The editor will be an extension of your hand; the keys will sing as they slice their way through text and thought.

In some ways, programming is like painting. You start with a blank canvas and certain basic raw materials. You use a combination of science, art, and craft to determine what to do with them.

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

I always liked fashion. I like to dress up on days off - the weekend and go out - I have a friend that worked in a hat shop in Soho, and he came to me and asked me to design a logo and a hat. I did and I showed it to him and he loved it.

I never do a whole new set of new material. I do one new joke at a time, and I wedge it in between two good jokes. Or if it's a long story, I don't do it in L.A. or New York; I do it in Kansas and Omaha, all these places I'm going this weekend.

When I was working in Bangalore, short film making was fun - almost like a weekend getaway for me and my friends from the software industry.

I don't even watch many huge films. I don't go to the cinema every weekend. I watch selective cinema and want to make my kind of films.

My teaching was primarily focused on making, it wasn't about the pounds, shillings and pence. I remember being in college and being in business and there was just a weekend in between.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I like my husband, so I don't work at weekends.

By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or at weddings.

I have my own dance and production companies, and acting is my creative outlet. It's what I'm passionate about. I've actually created a lifestyle where I could act for free. I could get a job to pay the bills and act on the weekends to make me smile.

Writing fueled me, and my task was to make it fit into my life. I practiced my trade as an attorney, and on weekends and holidays, I typed away. I assumed a nom de plume, Selena Montgomery, to separate my fiction from more academic publications.

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.