Quotes About Creativity

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

I guess I could've been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale!

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

I think walking is a little more primal than art-making.

It's real primal; I just like playing music.

The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work. It's coming from a primal place rather than an intellectual place.

All this primal energy people respond to in me and my characters is in my music, 10 times more.

I think working with the primal elements of fire and earth appealed greatly to my father because of the almost magical results.

Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul.

Primal Scream's 'Screamadelica' was one of the pivotal records.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends, so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

A page a day means I need to focus on a gag a day, and that's great for laughs but bad for plot, and I'm primarily a plot guy.

I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.

We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.

I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.

I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.