Quotes About Creativity

Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

I'll be honest; I'm a student of fashion. I say that because I just wear what I feel. I'm not led by name brands and things like that.

School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.

When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation.

We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

The nice thing about student drama is that you're allowed to get things wrong, because it doesn't mean no one will ever hire you again.

Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.

The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing.

I think what any student adds is the ideas they bring.

I am a student of cinema, and I love filmmaking of all kinds.

To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with.

I'm a student of cinema in general, not just of one particular genre. So it was very important to me and to my soul to go out and do something different.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.'

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.