Quotes About Creativity

Creativity is making a good pass at the right time... but it can also come from deeper, there should always be a balance.

Cinema is not just a side show - it is something which is much deeper than that. It is a form of art which needs to be respected.

Comics and animation have some of the deepest stories I've ever seen.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them. I think that is what real writers do. They don't tell people how to live or what to think. They write in order to try to answer their own deepest questions.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life. I was able to express my own deepest feelings far more than I ever could when writing for adults.

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

Writing about food is my default.

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

At Arsenal, all we think about is how to attack, how to score, how to dribble, how to make a pass. We do not think so much about defence. Probably, for results, this is no good: but I like it.

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

A writer has to fully defend his rights and his own worth.

Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.

I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it's fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

A band can define their own success.

I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

Films are a part of my being, they don't define me.

A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.

I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music.

A lot of writers don't know what it feels like to get on stage. They don't understand the weight that songs can carry. I got a chance to play all these shows. I got a chance to define myself through music, so when it comes to helping other people figure out what they should say, I've been through it.