Quotes About Creativity

I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.

When you're drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you'll create a more relatable cartoon.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

When I drive, I check out everything I see, and just taking in all those observations helps me think. So I draw and write a lot as I drive, and I know that's dangerous, but I manage to do it off to the side, with my notes on the seat.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

I am not interested to sing in Bollywood. I sing for only those actors whom I admire. I sing free of cost for them. I want to take independent music ahead, and my songs are completely based on my observations.

One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren't lost forever; they live in your work.

I will continue to make films to express my thoughts that come from my observations, from the society we live in.

Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.

It makes you observe small details; even if it's just a kid playing with his dad, if you watch them closely, you can use that in your work. It helps you fully understand people better.

Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

Sometimes I observe stuff I haven't been through and write about it. I used to walk my dog with these 50-year-olds, and they'd tell me stories I could use.

The actors bring their own stuff and thoughts, and most of the time, I don't want to know what they are. It allows me to have more distance and observe what they're doing without having the knowledge of what they have in their minds, so I can see clearly how that feels to me.

Usually I'll be with my friends and I'll observe everything, and grab emotions from that to write my songs.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.