Quotes About Creativity

When you set out to do a show about a sponge, you can't anticipate this kind of craze. We just try to make ourselves laugh, then ask ourselves if it's appropriate for children.

Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'

Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything.

I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.

I was thinking about what would it be, what would the characters be like, and it just suddenly dawned on me that, hey, nobody is doing an underseas show. So I started drawing these weird invertebrate animals, various characters like crawfish and starfish and squids and sponge.

I was such a sponge with music.

I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

You have to imagine you write a show about a sponge and you think that maybe a few people will think it is funny, some college students, but it takes off. It is truly shocking - to the point where it is bizarre.

I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds.

I'm all about spontaneity. I think it makes for greatness.

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

I can't lose my spontaneity.

My great overall skill is spontaneity and winging it!

I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.

There's nothing like the spontaneity of making something work on stage.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Spontaneity is everything to me, working without a net.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.

I don't know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I enjoy the spontaneity of it; I like not knowing what I will do next or whether I will be in the country next week. I just enjoy being around a creative environment.