Quotes About Creativity

My first attempt at writing a novel was horrible. I had to throw it away. But I stuck with the idea, which is what became 'The Invisible Circus.'

If I'm working every day, it's like pumping a pump. When you start, rusty water comes out, and then it runs clear. I do it even if I get completely stuck.

I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.

If you are a new, upcoming designer, you've got to think of new, cool ways to make the industry look at you. Don't just get stuck in a rut, show your clothes, and be like, 'You should like this.'

When I heard my first rap song and figured out what that was, I kind've stuck to it. I always wanted to be a musician in general, an entertainer. I just started rapping. I never decided, 'Oh, I want to be a rapper.'

I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.

There's nothing worse than being stuck with a bad song.

I think you need to be very careful of getting 'stuck' in musical theatre.

I never want to get stuck in the box.

The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.

You make a record like 'Jump,' people are stuck in that world. They want you to keep making records like 'Jump.' People don't understand that you got to move on; you got to do something else. You have to evolve and go to something else. And most of the time, when it's time for you to move, other people are not prepared for that move.

To be completely honest, I think if I hadn't been bullied into the band, I would have been happier as an art student. I would have been happier in a Brian Eno world.

As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.

I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.

We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places, where no person, no student, no program has gone before.

I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project, and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.

I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.

Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.

I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.