Quotes About Creativity

I'm a relentless sketcher. It goes back to how you process the world around you - the whole left-brain, right-brain thing. Some people are data-driven. I've always been more visual.

I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5.

I've always been interested in visual art and used to be much more into theater when I was younger, or more knowledgeable about what's going on. And literature has played a big part in my life.

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design when I couldn't afford to have a team and I didn't want to look like I was indie. I wanted to give fans the visual.

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And there'll be moments where I'll just kind of throw a look off to the side as if I'm talking to one of the characters. It's always been something that I've had with me since I was a little kid.

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

The visual of Deadpool was very informed by Spider-Man.

Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.

I don't really trust musical artists that don't also do visual art.

I had no visual imagination as a child. I liked playing football. That was it.

Generally, we try not to write down to kids. We really just try to write a visual, character-driven cartoon that has a lot of slapstick and really appeals to us. I guess we are just lucky that other adults find that amusing, too.

I am not indulgent. I think constructing a scene elaborately - with art, costume, and visual drama - is not indulgence. Other people should do it, too.

As a director, I start with the visual.

Usually, I think of the song, and then the video plays out in my head as I'm writing the song. I started rapping to become a comedian, so I'm certainly thinking about the visual component of things beyond just the music most of the time.

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

I'm a Banksy fan. I'm also a fan of Chris Hobe, Mister Totem, Drew Wootten, Mad Clout, Hense and Sever, in visual and street art. And Jonathan Mannion and Shane Nash in photography.

Traditionally, the role of the bass player was just to keep things simple and solid, so it's really a special thing when you can get a player that can actually bring in a lot of presence and also a visual presence, too.

As someone that really likes painting and visual art but also likes video and movies and also music and recording and style and clothes, it was hard to pick what to do with my life.

Well, I have to have some type of visual in my head to finish a song. I can't finish a song if I can't see anything.

We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music.

I've done a lot of dance sequences because I like them; I like to animate dancing because it's fun and visual.

I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.

I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.