Quotes About Creativity

You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again.

I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.

I work a lot of things out on stage nowadays rather than writing them in big blocks.

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

The shows being made nowadays are very similar, very regressive. We are talking about the type of '60s, '70s kind of films, and similar stories are being shown on TV today. Only rehashed and glossy. It does not interest me.

Growing older, boundaries between the artist and the listener are something that nowadays should be completely demolished.

I want to continue to do some great work. I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. I'm a diverse person who's trying to use his art to make the world better.

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

I find N.Y. very inspiring; there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in N.Y. like nowhere else.

I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.

Minimal art went nowhere.