Quotes About Creativity

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.

I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.