Quotes About Creativity

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

The word 'composition' applies to music, too, and it can be useful to think about how art is created in relation to music when trying to analyse it.

Oscar Wilde suggested that every portrait painted with feeling is of the artist not the sitter. The artist reveals himself through the coloured canvas. The self-portrait is therefore a consultation of what the artist wishes to say about their art, a physical rendering that aims to included a psychoanalytical evaluation. It may offer and insight into the essence of their creative unconscious, their ambitions and desires. Yet the act of painting a self portrait is also implicitly about death.

Art is a visual language, not one of words, and so conclusions about artworks based on verbal or written communication are parallel but not a true equivalent.

memory is made up of one part perception, one part intuition, and one part pure invention.

Let's agree right here at the outset that memory is made up of one part perception, one part intuition, and one part pure invention.

The secret to those who write is that they come to the art simply because they cannot speak.

Stories don't always reflect the world; they make it, too. A book is a world inside the world, and sometimes there are worlds within that.

Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.

By remaining true to itself, grime and its immediate family of jungle, UK garage, dubstep and so on had taken up where Soul II Soul left off, and plugged in to how many youngsters really thought about their lives and their music.

Craftsmanship isnt like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until its empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Thanks to dreams, in the history of the galaxy the world has been reinvented more often than there are stars.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.

I string sounds together. But to string them I have to remember a bunch of old ones I heard somewhere and then juggle them into a new rhythm and shape.

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.