Quotes About Creativity

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

I like to make collages - paper collages.

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.