Quotes About Creativity

In this way, some film schools can be destructive.

Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep inside you and making something out of that.

Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.

I see things differently, feel things differently. That's how I've always been, and that's why I'm different to everyone else. Information: simple. Detail: simple. I just aim to play as if it was five-a-side as an 11-year-old kid. That's how I see it because that's how it is.

I love the idea of seeing a character - I mean, there's nothing like seeing a character and having the huge detail and roundness that a character in a book can give you. It's so much more full than a character in a script can give you, isn't it?

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

If we got writing assignments in English class to make up a story, that was when the glimmer of creativity popped out. That was way more interesting to me than writing down my life details.

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

I am a magpie. My eye collects details.

No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.

I don't really like the sound of Auto-Tune. I don't like when it's extremely audible, when you're able to detect it easily. I don't like that.

All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.

If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.

I don't want to give you the opportunity to find a box to put me in, figure it out later. When the records come out song by song, you'll hear it and get to determine how you want to classify me.

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

I've got to the point where I just get on with it and the content of what I put on the records is determined from what I learn from the audience, from what works live, from what I want to hear when I go to a club or what I'd like to play when I get home.

The script determines the costumes. At least that is how I like to work.

The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.