Quotes About Creativity

My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life.

Moving to New York City and playing and listening with the wonderful music community that we have here has really been the guiding force of where I've arrived.

I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there. And so I had been a magazine illustrator instead.

To get 'The Greatest Showman' greenlit, we had to get everyone into New York City to hear a read through, where we'd read through the script and sing it.

That's the way it was in New York City in the early Seventies, all the artists hung out together.

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

I love working with newcomers.

I don't think I could have learnt as much about my craft working with stars. Just the sheer freedom you get while working with newcomers is exciting.

There has to be some newness in the story or, at least, some aspect of the movie. I get bored if the story is told in the same way all the time. I get bored easily.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

Frankly, all the songs from 'Fiza' that made news were mine.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.

A song isn't a newspaper. It might feel direct, but it's not.

When I was younger I used to make wallets and purses out of newspaper and I would give them out to people.

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write.

I've been writing articles for newspapers and magazines. And writing is a very beautiful way of expression.

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?