Quotes About Creativity

Literature precedes genre.

The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.

You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

I'd be making beats pretty much every day after school and it just grew and grew. I wasn't precious about my music. I just loved creating and putting stuff out there.

Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

Don't get attached to any one idea. Nothing is too precious.

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.

I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious.

Some scripts you feel like everything is precious.

Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.

I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.

I construct myself and do things how I want to do them, because your artistry is a very precious thing - it's ultimately your whole life if you want it to be.

That's the thing about 'The Daily Show' - we're doing four shows a week, so we can't be too precious about what's going on.

You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.

One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.

You just need to create and be open with that energy. The second that you are precious with it, it's almost like you showing the world you have a limited amount.

I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. It's precise, and you don't have to kill anything.