Quotes About Creativity

To me, there's way more to being a good drummer than precision and technique.

I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.

I'm the complete technique of rhyme. I don't have no boundaries.

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget that they know anything. They also have to be gorgeous; they must have a clear image of themselves and strong personalities.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.

Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.

I watch a lot of movies, and I tend to be influenced by scenes that intrigue me, that make me want to use the same effects or technique.

I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a pretty good technique on the guitar and allowed me to find different ways to do things.

I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable based on what the other person gives me. I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

We work so hard as young artists to further our careers or improve our technique, sometimes it gets so easy to not actually go and see things like a play or a film. I think the best way to get better is to see other actors do what they do well.

I enjoy finding a low subject and bringing it up high. I think with strong technique, you can glamorize certain things. You can make the imagery sharper, rounder, and basically better looking.

You shouldn't think about technique when you play. You have to be you. It cannot be about, 'I can play this, and I can show you that.'

Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.