Quotes About Creativity

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

Not many directors have the courage to make movies that are against conventional, commercial norms.

I'm not always interested in Hollywood norms and boy-next-door kind of characters.

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.

I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.

When I was a young lad just out of college at the North Carolina School of the Arts, I directed several plays that I wrote. It was essential theater, meaning we had no money, so our set may be six stools and two chairs and eight cream pies.

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.

Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

When I started watching movies, I saw a lot of Hitchcock films. When I was 10, I saw 'North by Northwest' and movies like that.

J. K. Rowling has said that she was bullied in school. She was a daydreamer and had her nose in books all the time, much like some of her characters today.

I can play the harmonica with my nose.

KISS has always been outside of the borders of what other bands can do. Not that some of these other bands wouldn't want to do it - the fact that they may snicker or look down their noses at what we do is more out of jealously than anything else.

In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.

I never wanted us to be an exercise in nostalgia, living in the shadow of other artists.

I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.

I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

'Nostalgic' was just all my influences and me just being like, 'Yo, I'm going to be the hardest one out of everybody.'

But I think what makes a band great is that you're not trying to be someone else ever. At no point do you want it to become nostalgic; you never want to be a cover band for anybody.

It's not fair to tell an artiste what to be creative about.