Quotes About Creativity

I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me.

I want to ride in a cold air balloon. "This isn't going anywhere!"

When I first saw a strap on, I put it on my head and ran around like a rhino.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.

I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

I always wanted to be a hairdresser.

I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.

I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Learn the lick, but learn FROM the lick.

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.