Quotes About Creativity

I don't know if I would describe myself as a political artist.

That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.

I'd like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you're listening to it or seeing it. But I don't mind the fact that it's hard to describe.

I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn't. I wouldn't be able to describe my style or even tell if I have one or not.

I like landscape, I guess. It's kind of a game to see how you can describe it.

It's hard to describe why one room and not another feels right for writing. Of course you have to train yourself to be able to write anywhere, but it's nice to feel that each book has a place that belongs to it, where it's home.

I don't really know how to describe how I got into music - it kind of just happened.

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

I describe my own music as epic love pop.

It's always hard to talk about music and describe a song.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

I can't imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot 'Lawrence of Arabia.'

It's different if you're self-fed by a culture such as the U.S. where it's so rich, you don't have to look outside. Everything's already there. But when you grow up in the desert, you have to be looking all over for inspiration.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.