Quotes About Creativity

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

A sleeping bag is a tortilla for a human.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.

It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake.

"I've done your dog. It's got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?" "Fido looks a bit weird."

When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.

I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

We have to play it longer because there are no numbers or letters.

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.