Quotes About Creativity

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out.

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!

Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

Man, I feel like hip-hop is - first of all, not even only with just GOOD Music, I gotta say - I think hip-hop is still alive in a strong way, man. I feel really enthused about hip-hop.

Quaint, outlandish heathen gods Black men fashion out of rods

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding.

Every day I would come to set [of Swiss Army Man] going like, "How are we going to do this?".

When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

I love weird man, when you get to do something that you don't necessarily get to do in real life, play characters that are a little bit outlandish.