Quotes About Creativity

But I believe that since my life beganThe most I've had is justA talent to amuse.

imagination is a form of flagellation if a sensitive child lets it run wild ...

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.

There is no separating yourself from the things you make, he thought. If you are a cesspool, what else can your work be except shit?

To an engineer, only the ingenuity of pragmatic solutions is poetic. Function

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Dreamers will always dream.

Warhol, who understood the idea that the self was just a story we told. Reinvention

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball — you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting will become easier.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.

What was costly was not the shot but coming back without good pictures to choose from. The light was perfect, orange gray, casting long shadows. The city seemed to reveal more the darker it got.

You can fix anything but a blank page.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

You can't edit a blank page

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.