Quotes About Creativity

I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.

I always thought it'd be cool to portray these certain things, make people feel a certain way. I was kind of fascinated with that, but I wasn't the type to do acting school or theater. I didn't have the best views of Hollywood, so it wasn't something that I was going to try and pursue.

It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I say itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence - but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, creative culture.

I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.

When I was on 'Dragons' Den,' most of the letters I received were from people under 16. They wrote about their ideas, their views, their challenges. The audience is actually a very young audience.

I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction.

I think you shouldn't get my music confused with who I am or who we are, because Yung Lean, from the beginning, is like a character created by me. Yung Lean was everything that Jonatan wasn't. And so me, as a person, and my views on things are certainly different than Yung Lean's views, so you should definitely not get those two mixed up.

The arts are tremendously powerful in bringing people with opposing views together.

I spent three months working on music videos, working eighteen-hour days, put it out, got half-a-million views... and got a check in the mail for a couple hundred bucks.

Dissent in art is a fundamental right. But if it is dissent about a book, a piece of art, and if you don't like it, you have the right to express your views outside the theatre, but you cannot create a law and order situation. Then the state has to step in.

I have my own set of friends with whom I discuss better story ideas, views and scripts. So I channelize my time in a productive way.

A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.

It's important to be vigilant at all stages of the making of a film. The theme of a work should be represented properly.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.

I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.

Arcadia' was started and finished at the Medici villa in Rome.

I think if I hadn't been born in a pit village I'd have been part of a dramatic society.

I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.

I don't really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don't read stories, first of all. I just remember either a rabbit or a rat leading people out of the village with a flute. That's all I can tell you.

I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.

It takes a damn village to get a show on Broadway!

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.