Quotes About Creativity

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

Take away all the emotional baggage of any band's fight, be it The Beatles or The Stones, but in the end, you just enjoy the creativity. That's what the legacy is.

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

Everytime I play something for someone there is an emotional thing that happens that guides me.

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.