Quotes About Creativity

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it to be because it's subjective.

I work from a subjective palette.

Acting is very subjective and one can't be deterred by what people think of your work.

Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.

You don't know you've got a hit when you write it - because music is all subjective, you know?

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

I look for subjects who have stories to tell - who are looking to tell something.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

I never have fixed subjects that I discuss on stage. I never go on with any particular subjects in mind.

By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever, but some of the obstacles are just massive. You deal with these lateral subjects, and all that is left is the elephant in the room.

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects.

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.