Quotes About Creativity

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

Without emotional content we make pictures; with it, we create art.

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.