Quotes About Creativity

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

I usually just dress myself. I typically make something or buy something and fix it up. I really like to spend my money on accessories like bags, shoes, belts. I don't really spend on things I can make.

In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.

I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions.

Most of my time at the White House, I wrote very unfunny speeches, but every year, I would work on the correspondents' dinner, which was a reminder of this other kind of writing that I loved to do.

Thank God for jazz. It gave black women what film and theater gave white women: a well-lighted space where they could play with roles and styles, conduct esthetic experiments and win money and praise.

A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.

Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

At Spago, we make all of our pasta from scratch with egg yolks, so I'm always looking for new ways to play with egg whites.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.

Some people will come up to me and say, somebody stole this from you flow-wise. I'll say I gave it. Who am I to be a gatekeeper? Anything I did, I'm giving it to the world.

Fashion is kinda a joke. I don't get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it's one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things.

What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything. You never ever want someone to go, 'Oh I shouldn't have done that.' There isn't anything you shouldn't try. If it's terrible, who cares?