Quotes About Creativity

Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.

I can sing, but I don't know how pleasing it is to the ear, you know.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

The thing about doing concerts is that it's doing a live show. It's on my schedule. It's songs I want to sing. It's saying what I want to say. It's working with the people I want to work with. I don't have to worry about pleasing other people - I can do what I want, and people come along and go for the ride.

I don't want to make films that are constantly pleasing the audience, it is not my tradition.

Rahman is very very director friendly. He is ever ready to go whichever the director wants, the story wants, depending on the kind of movie or the music you want, and within that he finds his niche. It is a constantly complementary process. At the end of the day he is not pleasing you, he has to please himself.

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

Whether for company or isolation or just to make it a pleasurable experience, I have music in my ears all the time. I tend to listen to the same things, so I don't really pay too much attention to it. But it's there, and it's nice, and I do pay more attention to it than I probably should. I think, 'How can I use this music in something?'

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.

There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.

There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's more pleasurable because you have total control.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

It's a guilty pleasure that things I loved as a kid I now have the power to put into motion and up on screen.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a bit like a jewel-maker who can sit back and admire his work.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.