Quotes About Creativity

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era.

I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.

The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it.'

We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attendance upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, The few, whom genius gave to shine Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime.

Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.