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Quotes About Creativity

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
~ Eugenio Montale
I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.
~ Temple Grandin
My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts.
~ Taika Waititi
I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content.
~ John Legend
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.
~ David Carson
I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they fill, whether it's visual, music, or whatever, artists are interested in other art forms. Your brain is already kind of firing in that way.
~ Mike D
It's amazing to be able to work with people right at the top of whatever they do... inspiring photographers and stylists with very interesting visual language. The more I do it, the more I enjoy it.
~ Edie Campbell
I grew up in a very visual household. My dad is a designer; my sister is a designer. My brother is an amazing architect who does music. But I think in the Chung household, how things looked was an important part of who you are.
~ Alexa Chung
When you are adapting a book to a visual medium, you tend to leave a few things and add a few new ones.
~ Vetrimaaran
I don't really think about a visual aspect to the work at all; I just think about making the piece. And everything that occurs visually comes out of the subject matter you are dealing with so that I find it difficult to treat the visual element as a separate entity.
~ Simon McBurney
You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.
~ Alice Cooper
I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.
~ Chris Riddell
I love visual art. I painted for many years when I was younger. I have studied modern/contemporary Indian art a bit and am very impressed with the talent in India.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
~ Chris Van Allsburg
There's so many things about Babymetal you cannot just grasp with the sound. The visual has to compliment the sound, the costumes have to compliment the sound.
~ Suzuka Nakamoto
I have a visual imagination.
~ Sylvia Plath
Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.
~ Michael Ian Black
Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
~ Vik Muniz
If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
~ Grimes
'Piku' was driven by subtleties. Most films come with the padding of the sound, the visual, the drama.
~ Deepika Padukone
Every time we come out, there's a hunger for creative expression or creative ways to put out content that isn't duplicated from our last run. Whether it's technology, messaging, visual... we're always pushing the envelope.
~ Taboo
I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me!
~ Berlie Doherty
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
~ Chuck Close
I'm never going to be one of those people who is good at organization. But I'm very visual. I have a catalog in my head of things I already own, so it's easy to shop and I always know exactly what I'm looking for.
~ Alexa Chung