Quotes About Creativity

The only goal is in the process. The process is in the thing with little flashes of light: those are the gigs, the live shows... it's the life in between. That's all I've got.

My learning process has always been very idea-oriented. I never sat down with a book being like, 'OK, now I'm going to learn about transistors.' Instead I had an idea that I really liked and learned as I was trying to figure out how to build it.

The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.

During isolation, one can bring a different approach to the creative process.

When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It's all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappears, and it shows up later in the process.

When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of died a horrible death and gave birth to the movie that exists now, which now, in retrospect, I like. But it's not the movie I set out to do.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Editing is a meditative process. I enjoy it the most. I am not dealing with 200 people.

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

I'm continuing the educational process of getting people to accept dance as music.

I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

The ability to work every day was a big part of L.A.'s effect on my process and the band coming out from Philly once a month.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

That's not to say that some day I won't go outside again, but I'm having a great time working on this process.

The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.