Quotes About Creativity

Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.

I don't do a lot of strategizing, career-wise. I was approached by Chris and Phil, the guys who did 'The Lego Movie.' They gave me my first job on 'Clone High.' We've been friends forever, and they asked me if I wanted to write something with them.

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

I knew from working with New Order that I enjoyed working with Phil Cunningham.

I was a huge fan of Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, Jan Hooks, obviously Phil Hartman, and a very young Adam Sandler.

I listen to a lot of Phil Collins.

I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.

I like Philip Glass. I think he's made some really great contributions to his field. I love his style of playing - it's very loop-style.

I like to try to change things up a bit in the way that actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Michael Fassbender did and do.

I was obsessed with Philip K. Dick.

My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I'm a huge fan of Philip K. Dick.

I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read!

My being in America and being adopted from the Philippines have given me motivation and drive as an artist.

I remember performing one-man reenactments of Miss Saigon' for my grandmother on her fireplace or dancing to Gwen Stefani in our hotel in the Philippines.

I learned Neil Young songs, Bob Dylan songs and older songs. It wasn't until I moved to Philly that I had aspirations to maybe forming a band.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.

Snoopy was a philosopher in a way.

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.