Quotes About Creativity

The National's favorite experiences as musicians are when we are collaborating with people a little outside of our world as a band.

From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or another going to come back to my music. I have to make sure it is all cohesive, as that's important to me as an artist and a person.

I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.

To a certain extent, just like my children, I nurture my writing until the point when it has to get out and face the outside world, where it takes on a life of its own. That is a purpose of any artist and their art.

In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.

In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.

Good scripts are difficult to come by in the industry, especially if you are an outsider.

I'm still an outsider in the hip hop community. I don't even know if I'm making hip hop anymore.

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

I've always felt like an outsider, and I'll probably continue to always feel like an outsider. Hopefully that's a good thing. I feel like I approach things differently than other designers.

Every writer is an outsider.

I can't be objective about my work, because I am so involved that I can't see it as a product to be judged. I can't see it as an outsider.

I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.

When I came into improv, it was almost like an outsider art form.

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.