Quotes About Creativity

When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful, possibly terrible mistake. That comes from thinking of yourself as a writer.

Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.

Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.

Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us.

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

Whenever I'm making songs, I am pretty much, quote unquote, freestyling them into existence.

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

I'm the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as well be the Holiday Inn in Nebraska - somewhere where no one knows you, and you're in a band situation just playing music.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all.

It's like, whenever I do any kind of cover, if it's a jazz piece or pop cover, I want to honor the original and make sure that the bulk and the juice of what makes that so great is there, but take it to a different place.

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'

Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country.

Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.

Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.

It's very difficult to innovate without requiring people to do something different. And whenever you require people to do something different, you're talking about change.

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.

Even today, I'm not sure why I make films or what makes me want films. I think it's other people's films. Whenever I see a really great film, I think, 'I want to make a film like that.' And then I never do.