Quotes About Creativity

If you want to be an entertainer and just keep your audience happy, that's one thing. But to be an artist, I think, means ultimately primarily pleasing yourself, and in that respect, you constantly have this sense of confronting the expectations of your audience.

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.

There was a point when I thought I would primarily be a writer, but the acting seems to have got in the way. So when I do get a chance, I jump at it.

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

I love the 'Black Album' because I think it was the beginning of something, primarily. I'd met Metallica, and I'd heard Metallica before that, but when I heard the 'Black Album,' I actually had a response rather like I did with 'Sgt. Pepper.'

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

The primary plan is to let the music speak for itself.

When I need to complete a project of primary importance, I'm around nature a lot.

Every project has its own logic and parameters. In some objects, functionality is primary, and in others, it is rather inconsequential.

The primary relationship on a film, where possible, should be between the director and writer.

At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we'd do it as many times as we could until we got banned! We used to sing 'Hero' by Mariah Carey; it was, like, my favourite song; we were obsessed with it. We'd do it as a duet, and it's the first I remember performing.

In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into regular movies.

At primary school I was in a world of my own and often I would get told off for being too loud, Then when I was around six, I woudn't go to class. I would be in school , but running around the playground having a great time while everyone else was in lessons.

I'm not going to be rockin' n' rollin' when I'm 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you're 50.

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.