Quotes About Creativity

So, my records really didn't sell, but musicians started picking up on my sound and my songs and cutting my songs and that turned into a gold mine.

I do a devilish borscht, and I'm very good at pickles. I used to make jars and jars of sweet-and-sour pickled cucumbers.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

Sometimes on my show, I just play something out of the blue, and the band picks up on it.

I have problems with guitars, I hammer away at it sometimes and I also do little intimate picks, I'm always looking at new guitars and little extra tweaks and stuff, I like to mix it up a bit.

When I work with Dre, he usually does more than 100 records and then picks his favorites.

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.

I've heard stories of pickup bands that can't follow, but here's the thing: If you want to play with Chuck Berry, you listen to his greatest hits and learn the format of the songs, but don't try to play it note-for-note.

When it comes to creation, I am open. However, I am extremely picky when it comes to who I create with.

Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

It's amazing what the acoustic guitar can bring to the picture.

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.

I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.