Quotes About Creativity

Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

Comedy has no rules, per se.

I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.

If you look at the creative economy in this country, it's per capita way bigger than any other in the world.

I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a lesson, and I don't read music. So all the stuff that I do doesn't come from the normal set of disciplines that they teach you where you sit down and run through scales for a particular number of minutes a day.

I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se.

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.

I just play the music that I'm gonna play and don't really worry about how people perceive it.

I did not fix any genre for 'AK.' We just write a story and audience will put it in a genre as they perceive it.

Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.

I love the way little kids dress themselves! They're completely carefree about how others perceive them.

What I perceive in science fiction is that it's more about how everything looks than what's going on, which I think is just difficult if you're an action character. I think they are about character, not about what it looks like.

There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.