Quotes About Creativity

When I go with different producers, and they've thought about what they want to do, I think they feel a little bit more free, because they know almost any sound will work on my record if we pull it together properly - so they don't feel so limited.

I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.

I came to Nashville in the early '90s, and I thought, 'OK, enough is enough. I write songs; I just don't have the backbone to show it to anybody. I want to go to Nashville and learn how to properly write a song.'

I just watched a James Brown video of him singing 'I Feel Good,' and then I kind of just copied off his moves. But I couldn't do them properly, so they turned into my own moves.

Above all else, 'Doctor Who' still seems to me to offer near-infinite scope for the writer. It must be the least constraining of televisual properties.

Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.

People have to respect intellectual property.

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

For me, the most important and distinguishing property of new media is interactivity. But how many people can actually create interactive games, animations, or simulations? Not very many. So, in my mind, very few people are truly literate with new media.

The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.

The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board.

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom.

I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it is only in that small one-tenth of the time that he rises to the elevated position of a prophet and a master.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

Our first name was the Poetical Prophets before we changed it to Mobb Deep, and when I look back on it now, that was, like, a ill name for us because that is what we really were.

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

The choice of films I make is directly proportional to the kind of cinema I have grew up watching.

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It's important to be able to propose new ways and new sounds without being stigmatised, censored or put aside.

Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.