Quotes About Creativity

Sometimes I see patterns in my mind. I dream about them at night. They drive me crazy.

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

Can you make fancy patterns of water that actually have some computation power? I'm betting that fluids are complex enough to do this.

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.

Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

When I first started writing songs, I did play with my fingers, and I had these kind of weird strums. There's, like, three or four strumming patterns that seemed kind of unique to me.

I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.

Spanglish is very natural. It's however it comes out. But there are a few patterns that all of us, especially Mexican-American writers, just noticed in how we utilized Spanglish. It comes out of necessity when you can't find the next word. You go to whatever language will serve you best.

I like patterns, anything fun. I think as we get older, we tend to get boring with our clothes.

Messi is awesome. His creative ability is extraordinary, outside of normal patterns. He manages to see what others don't.

My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.

We forget the importance of engineering, but it's been used to design everything from St. Paul's Cathedral to The Shard.

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

The group of writers I had grown up with in the '60s - Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon - formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.

I really liked working with Sean Paul; he is a very attractive guy, very hot. He was fun; the chemistry was really great, it was great to be in the moment.

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.

When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster.

I played the guitar. When I was 14, I composed songs - Paul McCartney-style things. I had a rock band - we'd compete in festivals.