Quotes About Creativity

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

I'm a big fan of Amy Sedaris, and one of her decorating mainstays is to put googly eyes on everything.

The more time you have, you should dedicate it to do creative work.

I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word, is it as a writer that you die?'

I always enjoy working with Aparna Sen. She is a dedicated and talented actress, writer, director.

In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.

'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

Deep down inside, I do feel, at times, that I have to prove to people that I'm actually an artist.

I'd love to create my own stuff. I've always written stuff, but it would be nice to have my hand a little deeper in the clay, so to speak.

There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work.

I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.

There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

I play the number ten role but also off the side or deeper.