Quotes About Creativity

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

There's a character, Eon, I did back in the 'Captain Marvel' story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere.

Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes.

I think that I can do with the Penguin what Heath Ledger did with the Joker.

I would love to voice an animated penguin or platypus at some point.

I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money.

'Penny for Your Thoughts' was something I noodled on for a while.

When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.

There's an ongoing 'water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink' situation at my house in terms of both pens and paper.

The humanities are not something that get you a pension and health insurance.

I am only as good as my last song. Hits are a pension, but I don't want to rest on those songs. I want to have a future.

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.

I get deep into the creative aspect, and Nick is the people person.

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the time.

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'