Quotes About Creativity

Professionally, I like doing one thing at a time and enjoy directing the most.

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.

People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that creativity out and to share that with others.

The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work, and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you, anyway.

I used to draw cars when I was growing up. I wanted to be a car designer. I've never been professionally taught. It's something that comes and goes.

Young professionals shouldn't have to let a fear of failure hold them back; they should feel emboldened to take on challenges in creative ways.

We're professionals, and we know we want to write.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

Mine is one of the most beautiful professions in fashion: making others happy with an idea... I am happy because I did the job I dreamt of as a child.

The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?

I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.

I frequently have scenes that take place in places I've never been or characters who have professions that I know nothing about that I've got to research. But that's what Google is for.

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.

One of the things I love about my job is the cornucopia of different professions in one.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

Who would have thought that a story about a professor of phonetics would result in it being probably one of the great shows ever for musical theatre? It's a seemingly odd subject.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.