Quotes About Creativity

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting.

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

Food should be fun, but it should also be functional.

Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.

We need to reinvent food at Starbucks. Less could be more.

I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

To me, food is a representation of your soul.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

I'm always tweeting about food and things that I've made.

For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.