Quotes About Creativity

'Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl.

I always go back to old vinyl albums I loved, and that's sort of the aim I had with 'Hero' - just to make it look classic and feel like me, but also timeless in a way.

I'm really nervous about coming off as exclusive or elitist. At the same time, I recognize that when I put out vinyl or an expensive coffee table book not everyone can afford it or listen to it.

I carry around a black leather Moleskine journal all the time. And I always write ideas down, especially when I'm on set and working with actors like Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis and learning from them.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

I think for writers, I think it's really important to court eviction from your tribe: to expose things and to wake people up. And so I think that that can feel like a violation to the people you love the most.

My faith sometimes burdens me with the responsibility to think very deeply and long and hard about the choices I make creatively. There are projects I turn down because the material is too much a violation of what I believe. But that's true of anybody.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.

The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting.

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

We all have violence inside of us, but we try to channel it into what we do.

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall asleep. It is not a very violent storm, but what's happening is I am just thinking about different ideas and maybe things I've seen that day that I think might make a good story.

People say that my movies are violent. I do not think so.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.

It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.