Quotes About Creativity

The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry.

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it.

I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.

It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.

We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.

I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.

There's a whole thing now in the entertainment industry that's like, 'You need to write for yourself. Those are the people that are really valuable.' And it's just like, 'I don't want to! I just want to act!'

If I didn't find art valuable, I would stop doing my work and only work for justice.

I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda.