Quotes About Creativity

Creative work in any established system of thought takes place at the boundaries of the system, where its powers of explanation are least developed and its vulnerability to outside attack is most marked.

Theory and interpretation, far from threatening works of art, keep them alive.

The cake had been done by a lady friend of Mary's. It was simpler than it would have been had she been given more time; but I was finding more and more beauty in simplicity.

I love making music. That's what I love to do. So I don't feel like there's any need to take a break unless I want to.

I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during the punk era, when you just had a go at whatever came along.

Unless you use the vocoder the way Daft Punk use it, it is very limited. When they sing it's almost human. It sounds sexy. I just used it as an effect. It wasn't because I was not able to sing; I'm not a great singer, but I had some hits as a singer, too. It's a nice effect.

Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to play safe and go with established names, but unless one breaks this routine, no new talent will come and survive.

I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick.

I try to do different things as much as I can. I feel like every actor, there's a limited number of tricks and go-tos. The real good stuff you can't get to unless it's something you haven't done before. So I try to make sure each thing is slightly different. Unless it's for the money. Then I don't care.

I always felt like I was stupid and couldn't get anything right unless I was singing, dancing, or acting.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

I can't write unless I've got the voice for a character.

I won't do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can't, it's not gonna make the team.

I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

Unlike many travel books I didn't set out to travel with the idea of writing a book in mind.

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I've always written with someone else.

Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writing in pajama-like clothing, which eases and relaxes me and allows me to connect with the decidedly improper.