Quotes About Creativity

We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

For me, artists are the world's pain receptors. That is why they have such a hard time living.

If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.'

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

Gravity Falls' was a labor of love, but like all labor it could be painful at times.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The process is sometimes painful, but also exciting.

'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said what I wanted. I think it must be different for every author; I haven't done very much of it, and perhaps, in a way, I found it rather painful, which is why I don't really do it very often.

There's nothing more painful than writing.

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.

'The Restraint of Beasts' is a painful subject. We'd shot 60% of the film when I had to stop. The material looks great, like nothing I've ever done or even seen before. It could have been really great, definitely original.

Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.