Quotes About Creativity

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.

Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where not many other people see patterns. ...I think that's what made me a good surgeon, and now, that's what's making me a good writer.

You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.

Actors betray. Technicians don't. Movies are made by technicians.

I have an inherent interest in filmmaking and equipment. Some of my best friends are technicians.

Whatever I have achieved is all thanks to my team. I always say that I don't repeat actors as often as I repeat my technicians.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

I had no real respect for good technique because I didn't know what it was. I was self-taught, so that stuff didn't matter to me.

I wanted to do a corkscrew moonsault backwards, so I had the idea of doing it forwards like the shooting star corkscrew, and I was aware no one else did that in wrestling. If I could perfect this technique, it would be unique to me.

Every dish doesn't have to be showy, and every dish doesn't have to slap you in the face with technique.

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

To be able to produce many varieties of sound, now that is what I call technique, and that is what I try to do. I don't adhere to any methods, because I simply don't believe in them. I think each pianist must ultimately carve his own way, technically and stylistically.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

Neymar will never fail to have technique and creativity.

One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.