Quotes About Creativity

Laurie Simmons began showing her photographs in New York in the late '70s: black-and-white and then candy-colored scenarios with plastic dolls in 1950s-style domestic interiors.

One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.

I still wear my write-in wristband. It used to be plastic, but my husband turned it into gold.

I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

When you hold something you created, drew, and conceived, and now here it is in 3D plastic - it is a rush.

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

I don't write Plastic Ono Band stuff, though I love that record.

I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.

I learned a lot from other people, and was inspired by what they did, but I didn't copy anyone. I put many different blocks together to become what I am. I don't know if that would have happened if everything was handed to me on a plate.

I'd quite like to invent something that allows me to in eat the shower - not sure what it would entail. Some sort of funnel that goes from the plate to my mouth to move the food to my mouth and keep it dry, perhaps.

You're thinking about a dish, you're thinking about an ingredient, and in many ways, you end up becoming a naked chef in front of the customer, because what you put on the plate is you. It's who you are and where you've been.

Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it.

Writing has been handed to me on a plate.

For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise.

A lot of people have a misconception about artists, that they're invincible, you know, they're on a different plateau. But I'm just a human being.

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

To me, 'Chopped' is a great platform for championing great causes.

We don't want to be a design line. Ultimately, we want to be a platform that houses many design aesthetics.

I use music as a platform to express myself. Everything I put out is me, the me I want people to see.

It's amazing that my career took off from my living room. It's an amazing time when everyone has a platform and everyone has the ability to get where they're going without the middle-man.

If people long to create a better world, then we must use our platform to nurture imagination - hopeful ideas, fresh alternatives, belief that the way things are isn't the way things need to be.

I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.