Quotes About Creativity

daughter's death had loosed something in Sara, a savage kind of grief that burned onto the canvas.

Her dissertation on Dutch women painters of the Golden Age sits unfinished in her apartment, a half-typed sheet of paper mildewing in the mouth of a Remington. It's been months since she worked on it and she sometimes finds herself staring at the machine's bullnose profile or the chrome-plated carriage return, thinking: Remington also makes rifles.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

At the moment, sitting on the edge of the bed with his eleven pages in his hands, he recognized a great similarity between stealing and writing. Both were intensely private matters.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

Being in a band with three guitar players, one thing you need to do is learn to make each guitar voice sound separate and identifiable.

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.

One of the songs we recorded for 'The Long Run' was called 'You're Really High, Aren't You?' Which never really made it onto a record, but later on, it became 'Heavy Metal.' I took that track that wasn't used, and when I was invited to write a song for that movie, I took that track and recorded that song for that movie.

That last record I did, I think I played every guitar on the entire record. I want to do something more fun and exciting.

sometimes it's not so much what the characters saying, but what they r feeling,thinking or doing that is important to an animated feature.

All great literature is about longing. The same is true with music. People can buy anything they want or need at the mall or on line. But they cannot buy what they long for. That is where writers come in. We deliver what people long for.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

Perhaps what he feared most was happening–his imagination had abandoned him, the well had gone dry.

Sometimes the distinction between theft and homage is murky.

There were no excuses. If you want to write, you write. You find the time. You make the time.

You need to be willing to live on the street to be an artist. Getting sucked into a career is an invitation to bail. It makes it too easy to give up. It makes it almost inevitable that you will.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

I never think at all when I write nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well