Quotes About Creativity

Your ideas and the things that you do are dumb and stupid and make no sense - until you start getting recognized and making money. Then you're a genius.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they're dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There's no time left to be creative.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

Art isn't complete until it's shared.

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

I was no one, nobody from Nowheresville, until I became a drag queen.

No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

I will keep painting until I die.

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

We always mess around with riffs and stuff and kind of jam out during sound checks, but we never actually started playing covers live until we started goofing off a little bit more on stage.

When Ando arrives in the studio, he picks up his pen even before he gets a cup of tea, and he stays seated until the very last train at night. He hardly eats, just nibbles at little balls of rice at his desk.

My creativity is an entity unto its own.

I've never relegated the lip-synch to a lower form of entertainment. Lip-synching is an art unto itself. A lot of people can't do it.