Quotes About Creativity

Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.

When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I'm doing.

Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.

Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you.

All experience helps when you write.

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.