Quotes About Creativity

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Men are the best cooks. Because with two eggs, one sausage & a little bit of milk, he can fill a girl's tummy for nine good months.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

A thousand composers couldn't create a soundtrack as lovely as your voice.

I have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bull, was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

And then Satan said, 'Put the alphabet in math....'

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

When I get bored, I look through my entire phone to see if there are any cool options I missed.

If familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth and leave your own hand prints on the skies; if you are the one who doesn't mind the lines in the coloring book as much as others do, and perchance you do not cling to a flock for you to identify with, then you must be ready for adversity.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.