Quotes About Creativity

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.

People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.

When I read 'Greenberg,' I had a really strong sense if I could be any kind of writer I wanted to be, I'd be this kind of writer. And I felt like, even in my experiences, what writing I had done, even on a small scale, when it was good, it shared some quality with it.

I was born in Indiana and raised in Oregon and there's a strong sense of individualism, particularly in Oregon. And my mom is an artist, so there was always a lot of emphasis placed on expression.

My kids are my energy. They have a very strong sense of design in them already at this age and they love to see my work, they love to sit with me and see all the houses that I am designing.

Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her, and I could see how she could be misunderstood by a lot of people, but she is really passionate about her art, and that's something I really admire about her.

I'm strong-willed, but that doesn't mean I can't work with people if we're all in the mission of trying to make a good movie.

There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

I just want to write another record that's as good or better than the one I've already made. That's my main goal, to follow up stronger than before.

Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

I've evolved as a human being, and I've taken more risks. I've let go of judgment. I don't know when the best stuff is coming - I sink into the process in a different way. I paint more, and my vision is stronger, but I don't think my music is better, because nothing is ever better than your first material.

With a band I feel stronger. It's not just me and my weird thoughts.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.