Quotes About Creativity

Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

I am not a shock jock pastry chef. I don't create desserts using strange ingredients just for the sake of doing so, like so many of my colleagues in the industry.

I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to write about the same things I wrote about at 20. I don't think artists should be farmed out to pasture just because they're in rock n' roll.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.

I'd love to do Pat Benatar. Probably either 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot' or 'We Belong'.

People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

I met Dylan on 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.' We buddied around for quite a while after that. We jammed together; he liked my Mexican songs.

Pat Metheny's my hero, man. I've got so much from Metheny's music.

There's nothing worse than trying to patch something or make do. If there wasn't something there in the beginning, it won't be there at the end.

We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else.

There are no patents in finance.

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Each song takes a different path through a different headspace.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

I don't like to follow in the footsteps. I like to learn from the footsteps that came before me, forge a new path.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.