Quotes About Creativity

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.

My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'

My mom is a sculptress.

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

I'm not the bake-sale-mom type - though once in a while, I'll make challah French toast for my sons.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.

My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.

My mom used to say, "You cannot experience what you cannot imagine ... yet you always experience what you do imagine.

I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic side. She still has the stick-figure drawings framed.

Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

Being fresh is more important than having money.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

I don't create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.