Quotes About Creativity

My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

Creative ideas in people's minds, but they fall into the trap of fear or rejection. Create a free judgment Wednesday and you spawn a thread creation.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, / What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come:Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many wiles.

True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot,The last and greatest art—the art to blot.