Quotes About Creativity

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

I don't study; I create.

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.

I began by working in a study in an attic, but for many years, I've used a small room in a library. What matters to me isn't decor or comfort but only quiet. I need to hear the rhythms of phrases, the music of sentences. Any place that allows me to do that is good enough.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

I would love to study photography.

I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That's what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

When I was studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse, I would overdraft my bank account and not have enough money to buy groceries. But I also discovered how to cook with very limited resources.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

Instead of studying what biology has already made, we have to imagine what biology could make. You can say, 'Oh, I want a cure for cancer,' but that doesn't tell you what evolutionary pathway will take you from here to there. What are the intermediate steps?

After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.

I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them.