Quotes About Creativity

My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.

When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.

Self-expression should not be a challenge that demands extraordinary talent but should be a right accessible to all.

With comedic actors, you can write one joke or two jokes, sample dialogue, and they have the capacity to extrapolate.

I feel like my Lion Babe look is an embellishment of my everyday look - it's definitely more extravagant and more artistic.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

I would spend months and months looking for a sound. I had to do that, or I wouldn't feel the extreme emotions I was feeling in my heart.

A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus on. That's kind of lost on me.

It's really fun to write something for kids. You can make it a little bit more extreme and crazy than you would for adults.

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Know that I am extremely proud of all that is 'Ween.'

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

I reinvented eyebrows.

I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.

Every apartment I've ever lived in has had a space to make, create, and get stuff done within eyesight of my bed.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.