Quotes About Creativity

I am spontaneous and not a method actor.

I am not a method actor. I would call myself a spontaneous actor.

I don't digitally manipulate my images, because I am interested in the spontaneous act of creating images without forethought. I know many artists start with an idea in mind, and then they put it on paper. I don't work that way.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.

Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.

I'm not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that's frequently ephemeral.

Most of the time, I don't like planning out too far ahead. I like to be spontaneous, make decisions, and go, 'Hey! That inspired me! I want to do more with that!'

R&B and all that stuff was always very spare and spontaneous. Nobody made those records under solid gold situations. It was just in and out, and you didn't labor over the thing. I like music like that.

A lot of people probably get the idea that I'm this extremely calculated kind of guy, and in a lot of ways, I am. But when it comes to music or artistic expression, I'm very uncalculated and do things very spontaneous. If I didn't do that, I wouldn't want to do this anymore. I can't just play the same thing over and over; it would drive me crazy.

Being honest and spontaneous is important when making music. But I'm also really logical when I compose.

I think the best thing you can do for an audition is to just do your work, be creative. It's OK to be spontaneous.

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

My style is very spontaneous.

Fashion was spontaneous and about getting things done, which I really liked.

I think the first take is best, as you are spontaneous, and after that, it becomes a mechanical thing. I don't believe in second take at all.

We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.

I used to do three or four songs a day, just write them - boom, boom, boom, and done - because of how spontaneous I was.