Quotes About Creativity

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

Honestly, I don't focus on what my writing is called. I don't mean to sound artsy and pretentious, I just really can't think of things in that way. For me, the point is telling a story that keeps people up past bedtime, while hopefully exploring ideas that resonate.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

I know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can't actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just knew that I had too many feelings and I had to kind of get them out in some way.

The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest.

Perfection isn't everything, some mistakes are pretty groovy.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.

I'm always pretty overworked with commercial illustration or design or animation.

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

It's pretty amazing to see something in your head and write it down, go out and shoot it, then see it on the big screen. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

I've said it before: just being a pretty face ain't going to get you that far. It has to be about whatever the art behind it is and what the message is and what the music is, the purpose.

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.

I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot.

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.