Quotes About Creativity

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

There used to be no bound scripts and the dialogues were given to us on the day of the shoot. There were no proper makeup rooms.

That's the thing, you see, we were never good enough to write proper punchlines.

Some days, I want to be prim and proper, and others, I want to be in a band.

Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.

The first time I made any money, I was 27. I went to Bergdorf's looking like a proper guttersnipe and bought a pair of Louboutins. I'd wear them and an old ink-stained kimono and make my drawings and feel indomitable.

I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally.

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.

I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

I don't actually do anything special to get in the proper frame of mind for creepy/heinous scenes.

We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.

I wanted to find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock music.

I like having an idea, or hearing an idea, and getting it into a proper script.

I could never write a proper party song.