Quotes About Creativity

It seems that, no matter what is happening to me in my personal life, I am always thinking about my work without even knowing it. This phenomenon resembles some kind of karma.

Perhaps it is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.)

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. [Pg.189]

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

The patron saint of Viking could not stand editors who claimed to have discovered an author. "The author is not a discovery," Huebsch always insisted. "The author is the discoverer." Maybe so, but I still maintain that it is the editor who has to dig out the pearl in the sand pile and clean it up.)

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

Cursing's for the uncreative. They say "Frack! on Battlestar Galactica, and everyone still knows what it means.

I thought it was endearing when we first got together. By the end I wanted to stab him in the hand every time he dismissed my cursing as an uncreative vocabulary. I think being able to use one little four letter word to convey a hundred different thoughts is pretty fucking creative.

The audacity of thought is not to repeat 'to the limit' that which is already entirely retained within the situation which the limit limits; the audacity of thought consists in crossing a space where nothing is given. We must learn once more how to succeed.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

The possibility of a musical modernity that was not characterized by sensationalism