Quotes About Creativity

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions and interests.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

I made The Instigator while I was homeless as a result of 9/11, and there was some stuff on there that was really raw and directly out of that experience

There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

Clear focus is the mind's magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever you clearly focus, you create.

I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.

I knew I wanted to direct since I was a kid. That was something I was always fascinated by and wanted to experience and see if I would be any good at it.

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.