Quotes About Creativity

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.

I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

Film songs have so many creative limitations, but a private album is like an autobiography that reflects your state of mind.

I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.

There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy level, and you do better painting.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

I love a good statement pant with a great heel and fitted top.

I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.

I'm trying to make a big statement - that I'm not just a hook singer.

In a sea of millions of people, you really have to set yourself apart to make a statement.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

I've never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.

I like dressing how I like to dress, and I look like a little art statement.