Quotes About Creativity

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

Some people criticize me for always wearing different variations of bobs, but bobs never go out of style.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

We need variations, variations in not just attempt but in flickers' attempts as well. I mean, a flicker needs to use different angles, pace to keep the opposition defence guessing.

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

I have a very varied taste in music from Boards of Canada to Radiohead. So I just love making music and being in the studio.

Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

A life of very, very serious, po-faced films would drive me nuts. I need - and I'm fortunate to have - a fairly varied menu in that respect. I mean, I was shooting 'Mamma Mia!' at the same time as I was doing Michael Winterbottom's 'Genova'. That was a very, very bizarre summer.

I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like 'Too Sentimental' is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.

I want to do lots of exciting, varied, interesting things. That's what I want to do.

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

George Balanchine is my role model because his work is so varied. You can see two ballets of his and not even realize that they are by the same choreographer.

I love to play varied roles. That's the most exciting thing for me.

Personally, I like records that are very varied in sound. Not just like, 'Oh, here's 12 super heavy tracks,' and they're all the same tempo.

Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.