Quotes About Creativity

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I feel like at this point in the world of just creating anything, you're not going to be able to create anything new. I think the closest thing you're going to get to originality is a mixture of influences.

Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Looking back now, if I went to film school, it probably would have helped knowing what the best of the best of foreign films were, but that wasn't the case. In some ways, I think that led to my originality, because I hadn't seen anybody else.

People believe in my originality more than anything else.

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

I was very impressed with the scope and scale and impact that came from originally one person making 'Minecraft.' It's inspiring for me to think how our team can do more with less.

The school I attended, Bedales, was fortunate to have been built by a leading light from the Arts and Crafts Movement in the 1890s. It contained a beautiful library, made originally of green oak and constructed with the help of the children.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

I met Magnus Lidehall about two years ago, and the beat that I originally wrote 'Younger' on was one of the first ones that he sent me. I must have been around 21 at that time, feeling a bit lazy and disappointed with myself and my life.

'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.

I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or six years, the fun went out of it for me; a lot of the music went out of it.

Originally, 'The Monster' started out as this indie, Florence And The Machine, tribal-y, almost Spanish-esque dance record.

I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.