Quotes About Creativity

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.

Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

We can only learn about creativity through our own experience of it.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it's ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.

Art is an emotional experience

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me.

I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.