Quotes About Creativity

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

latest notebook – he filled dozens of

In mathematics, it's unwise to abandon an interesting idea just because it's wrong.

Movie composer Henry Mancini, stimulated by Audrey to write 'Moon River' and 'Charade' and 'Two for the Road', always maintained that if you listened carefully to these three songs you could almost determine who inspired them. They were all imbued, he said, with Audrey's inimitable wistfulness – 'a kind of slight sadness'.

I never travel without my sketch book.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

real. The art of filmmaking is being able to eliminate all the bullshit and repetitiveness of real life for the sake of telling a smooth, clear story.

Long before we ever heard about hip-hop in L.A., I was writing rhymes. It

All through high school, I was reading Iceberg Slim. He was the first author I discovered who truly delved

got a full-time job in there paying me about thirty cents an hour. When I wasn't working in the laundry, I started writing and recording songs. This dude I met had a little cassette recorder, and over the years I recorded something like sixty songs. I studied all the rappers I loved and really

player." I nodded, got up, took the mic, kicked some rhymes that were floating around in my head—real impromptu—and won first prize.

Some people have something to say. Some people have to say something Avoid the second group.

One of the deans of the Graduate School of Management at UCLA had a sign on his door that read something like: "Warning: I might incorporate you to implement your own ideas." The sign itself, I was told, made several creative faculty members turn away with their suggestions while still at the door.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

Por qué hice tal y cual cosa?" está muy bien. Pero qué hay con "¿De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?".

What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?