Quotes About Creativity

In a perfect world, I'd like to start running comics for kids - by kids.

In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys as well.

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

Perfection is really boring!

I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

Artists that are perfectionists? We find it hard sometimes to be happy a lot.

Perfectionist? That's not something I am.

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.

I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it perfect.

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

To be perfectly honest, if it was up to me, I would be invisible as an artist.

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.

The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In fact, I'm usually trying to avoid saying something too directly, because usually that rings false anyway.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

The best script in the world doesn't work perfectly when you actually act it out. That's a law. That's a given. So you have to play with everything. And the more fun you have with it, the better the finished product.

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.