Quotes About Creativity

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other.

All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

When people ask me where I get my ideas, I lie. I tell them I draw inspiration from the news, the world, my dreams. Or I joke and say that I steal from other writers. I lie because I don't know where ideas come from, and I'm afraid if I look too hard, they'll stop coming.

I used to copy looks from fashion ads in my mother's 'Cosmopolitan' magazines and steal her eye shadows.

I'm a great collaborator. I really am. I will steal anyone's idea if it is a good one.

If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art, and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that's not cool.

When I was a kid, every street had a band, and we'd steal members from each other.

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

Never steal jokes.

I didn't start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate's guitar and sit on the front porch and kind of blend this weird spoken word and these little melodies over simple chords; that really started my whole journey as a musician.

The one and only thing that every comic agrees on is that you do not steal jokes.

This photographing is really the business of stealing.

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.