Quotes About Creativity

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

There's nothing I find more lazy than unmotivated camerawork just to make things look interesting.

Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.

I'm a bad artist. I'm lazy and untalented and bad.

Every album is like starting our career over again. We don't get blase, we don't get lazy.

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

If the social evolution leads to jokes, I use them.

Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist.

I have a lot of kurtas and Rajasthani-patterned clothes. So I really wanted to do something with an Indian flavour. Shooting the video for 'Lean On' was like a dream come true for me.

I came to realize that the law is about a book of rules, and he who learns them best, and is the most creative in interpreting them, goes furthest.

People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.

I have learnt a lot about theatre, and I would like to know the same about film.

Song-writing in general, and vocally I've learnt a lot about myself. I want to get better and keep learning.

Like most classic bands, we only do an album every three or four years but that leaves a lot of down-time. And I don't like down time.

So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don't want to leave it. And as a result, I'll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

I would put LeBron on a track.

I think that any actor - any artist, period - would love to work with an artist like Lee Daniels.