Quotes About Creativity

I don't approach my movies with a target audience in mind. I try to make something that's true to the subject matter as much as possible, while still being entertaining and fun.

For 'Nier: Automata', I wasn't told to target anyone. I just made what I wanted to, and I tried to stay hidden from Square Enix as much as possible.

I freestyled the hook to 'Target.' I got into cadence and then it sparked the idea.

To be honest, I don't try to speak and target who my 'audience' is. I just do my thing.

Yeah, it can be dangerous to kind of try and target your art to a certain type of people! You don't know who's going to gravitate towards your work, you never know what people are going get out of the work. So I try and just create music that feels true to my taste, and then see what happens.

Basically, I'm always coming up with ideas for mixing the things I want to draw with things targeted at children.

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

Comedy is often a short career because you get to a point where you are no longer a small thing punching up at targets; you are the big thing, and it's hard to write from that position.

I go back to read 'Tarzan' books every now and again or 'John Carter,' and you realize Edgar Rice Burroughs is not a great writer by any means. But he was a great storyteller. You wanted to see what happened next.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.

It is an extremely difficult task to make an entertaining movie, which is completely aesthetic and you can watch again and again.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Music industry is a very competitive field, and one has to continuously entertain and excite the audience, which is a difficult task.

My music is airy; it's spacious. It requires you to be able to rap and articulate your message over it. That's what the beat demands of you. Not a lot of people try to rap over my beats because it's a bit of a task.

It's not so much that art is difficult to make; it's that the structures and the kind of prejudices that the art world constructs make it seem like creating art is this insurmountable task.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.