It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.
I'm from the middle of nowhere in Somerset, and if I have too much stimulus or chaos, then I tend to not be as creative.
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
There is no need to shy away from your sexuality. We are born out of sex. It is the most creative act we are gifted with.
Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while.
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.
Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.
Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
