Quotes About Creativity

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.

You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

People always ask what my inspiration is, and it's never something that's easily explained.

I want my music to do the explaining.

I roughly draw the scene beforehand to be more confident on the set. Instead of talking and explaining certain things, I try to visually communicate the scene to my team with the story board. This is how I work.

When I worked with David LaChappelle, I was stimulated... He was explaining how he does things, how he works. I realized what an artist is, so I thought that's what dancers should experience.

The first 12 bars of 'Pre-Occupied' explains my entire career.

I dance because it makes me want to explode.

I feel like if I couldn't write, I would explode.

That's what's so wonderful about collaborating: your idea can explode and become something else.

I'm a Marvel fan, and I think this particular world that 'Doctor Strange' goes into is really, really, really exciting. I'm really interested as both an actor and a fan to see what's done in this particular world. It's all about creativity. It's not about everything exploding at the end. It's about something very different.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

I'll stop when I think I'm not doing good stuff. I'll never exploit something just because people like it.

We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons.

There is a lot of talent in our country that needs to be exploited.

Acting is constant exploration.

It's not like I wake up and think, 'Now I'm going to go to work.' It just feels like a continuing exploration.

I want to explore a lot of things, do acting here and there.

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.

I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of 'White Collar.'

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.