Quotes About Creativity

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

I enjoy photography. It's a lot of fun. It keeps me on my P's and Q's and, when you think about it, most people think photography is just going to a game. But you start to think, dang, that would be a good picture. Or you're driving along and see something and think, 'that would be nice.'

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!