Quotes About Creativity

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.

It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

You hope any film finds its audience and makes enough money that you get to make another one.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

I've always been a fine artist.

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress.

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo.

I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because theater can truly change people in lots of different ways. But I also think it can bore people to death, and it's quite a fine line between those two things.

I think there's a really fine line between innovating and being gimmicky, and we're trying to stay on the proper side of that.

And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not do what everybody else does.