Quotes About Creativity

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come on the synth. If I could somehow use them, I would.

That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not anti-digital, I just think, for me, film works better.

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand.

We make the patterns on the computer, but we also paint them by hand - it's a combination of digital and screen-prints. I'm trying to do as much as I can myself in the studio.

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.

If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

While I'm acting I'm focused on what I'm trying to say through the character. And when I'm writing, I'm just putting down on paper or on the computer what I have to say.

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.