Quotes About Creativity

I chose busking because I didn't want to be working for someone else. I wanted to work as I am. I feel like you ultimately do have a choice if you have your vision. So, I had a vision forever that I was going to play music. And there was no stopping that.

I have complete creative freedom. If I want to put a song on the album, there's no one stopping me.

There's no stopping and no limits on what musicians and artists can produce.

I can't ever see myself stopping DJing or producing.

I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity.

I have a mind that never stops working. As a matter of fact, it torments me.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

Music stops you from thinking.

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.

When I cook, my brain stops completely.

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

Working on being creative in the TV world is endless. It never stops. It's a challenge that never disappears.

I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.

As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

When I do music, I have a hard time experiencing it like everyone else, because there's so much thought that goes into it. You can sometimes fool yourself into thinking it's better than what it is, which stops me from being creative on the next thing I do.

Why are people afraid to try something different? Because of the scrutiny they're going to receive if it doesn't work. That stops people from trying things different a lot.

I must have 300 songs unreleased or unrecorded, lying around. I'm a production machine, it never stops.

We have lots to learn in India when it comes to design, and that includes me! I'm constantly learning; that never stops.

But I do love working for Boris because he never stops. He's always fizzing with good ideas, and when you are looking after culture, that is important. He's quite ambitious for London.