Quotes About Creativity

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me so much. I doubt I would be where I am today without that amazing experience.

I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

I really value passion for the product above experience.

I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

There's nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

I write and perform for the feeling it gives me, and the experience of being connected with a room full of people to the vibration of music

With music that I write, I like to have in there something you can relate to, a way to share the experience.

I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.

[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism.

When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.