Quotes About Creativity

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

My daughter loves to cook. At first, I found myself making her be really neat and precise. Then I realized it's OK if things get all over the floor and counters and ceiling. We're making memories.

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.

Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.

Writing is like driving a car. Writing the beats of a screenplay? It's like driving a rover on Mars. You have to be absolutely, extremely precise.

In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.

I try to be precise with my passes but take some risks as well.

I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

What good is a wall without framed art? It is like the equivalent of the accessories that you choose to wear to decorate a black dress - precisely the stuff that makes the wall/dress you.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

I have trouble working off things that are too preconceived, like storyboards.

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

If we can see past preconceived limitations, then the possibilities are endless.

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

I have no preconceived ideas; I gave that up a long time ago... The only thing we can do as musicians is make an album we like, and an album that we consider to be incredibly good.

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.