Quotes About Creativity

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with real comedy, there will be tragic moments in it.

Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.

When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.

You have to go where the good writing is.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn't make you good. Writing badly does.

Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.

For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.