Quotes About Creativity

Clothes are not a frivolous subject, and the conversation around them should not be belittled. How we dress affects what we feel, what we do, and who we are.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

I am only 30, and music is like a subject for me. I work like a student in every film.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

Many of our buildings have large format murals that are of varying subject matter, and we've found that those are the sort of things that make people stop, digest, and absorb.

One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

New industries are created by entrepreneurs who don't necessarily have subject matter expertise when they get started, yet they are still responsible for most of the innovation we see in society.

I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.

DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers' lunch room, my colleagues and I often lamented a problem that drained learning from students and creativity from teachers: a lack of funding for essential materials and for the activities that bring subject matter to life.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.