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Quotes About Creativity

If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.
~ Jef Raskin
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
~ Annie Leibovitz
If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.
~ Aphex Twin
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
~ Brian Eno
I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems
~ Roger McGough
The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.
~ Martin Gardner
Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.
~ Dieter Rams
Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.
~ Douglas Trumbull
Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.
~ John Maeda
I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
~ Roberta Williams
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
~ Gerald Scarfe
The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.
~ Hal Abelson
Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.
~ Brian Pinkerton
It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.
~ Daniel Simon
I am aware that a computer can't create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.
~ Charles Bukowski
The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.
~ Don Murray
I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.
~ Douglas Adams
I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.
~ JWoww
I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.
~ Krist Novoselic
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
~ Alan Kay
Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.
~ Chris Colfer
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
~ Martin Amis
Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.
~ Robin Wells
Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
~ Larry Wall