Quotes About Creativity

With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

You have to remain positive and just try your best and part of that is doing things that continually surprise people, including yourself, so that you don't get pigeon-holed.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they've gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving.

I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?

Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself.

In this world of stars, I just want to be different

Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I just want to do cool stuff.

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

When I see other rappers' lyrics of "I don't do what I don't like to do", I feel like it's really cool and there's also an envious side to me about it.

The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!

Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.

I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff.

Unfortunately a lot of Bristol's creativity just gets marooned in Bristol. It is a cool place though, maybe too laidback for its own good.

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool.

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!

Working with cool people helps when working with few shots. You trust yourself and them.

For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.

Russian directors, we are shooting the same streets. The same things. Tom Jacobson has a fresh eye and found very interesting and very cool locations and angles and characters.