Quotes About Creativity

Above all, I am a theatre person, from the National School of Drama, I want to promote theatre.

For me it doesn't matter if my song is promoted, or if it comes at the end credits of a film, it's my baby at the end of the day.

We have the finest officers in the world, but it seems like once they become generals it is a self-licking ice cream cone of who gets promoted and who gets approved to join that club. No one thinks outside the box.

Wherever technology's going, we're cool with it. We're definitely promoters of kids trying out new stuff.

You go real long in this business, and then you have these light-bulb moments. I just had this fleeting moment of fearlessness and a moment of trust in myself that I'm not going to listen to anyone. I'm going to do it how I want to do it. And how I want to do is what people are going to want to see and promoters want to pay for.

I've never been into artists promoting drugs.

You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

Naturally, I've always felt more like a writer myself, and I've always written. I have people who are writers who've been promoting that side of me. I also draw, too. Those things I feel most comfortable in.

I enjoy writing and promoting my books. I enjoy the feedback. But all this is because I don't depend on it commercially. I don't need that money. I have a career.

There's nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way.

Expose yourself to the products and promotions of other manufacturers, and your own field of new ideas will greatly increase.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

I do promotion because I want to do art. I don't do the art because I want to be famous.

I work well within The Roots because I can let my music speak for itself while Ahmir does most of the press and the promotion and the brand-building because he enjoys that.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

Kids are prone to be on their phone and their iPads, prone to sharing things and making things. Instead of trying to divorce education from that, let's lean into that.

Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'

Nothing creative functions well when fenced in or leaning on a prop. A contract is a fence and a prop.

Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.

Rather than being a prop in a film with big actors, I would love to do a meatier and more meaningful role in a film that does not feature a big actor.