Quotes About Creativity

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.

I think being creative is incredibly difficult and painful.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

The wake up machine was actually pretty painful after some time.

When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it's really painful.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

Its crazy: my name is Artist, and I dead can't even paint.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

I paint with shapes.

I felt like I was a bit more respected when I started to paint. It was like revealing my diary, but in a different language. It was something that was mysterious about me.

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.