The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.
Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to, you know, stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive.
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
It's all about doing work, being creative and staying true to who you are and having fun. That's what us actors are all about.
… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having been taught how to freely speculate, how t...
Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that place. There are a lot of people innovating, and that's not the main distinction of my career. The reas...
Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The Aeneid, he didn't invent Aeneas; Aeneas was a minor character in Homer's Odyssey whose unauthorized furt...
Owen: [to Duncan] You've got to go your own way, and you, my friend, are going your own way.
There's no right way or wrong way to work. There's only your way.
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.
Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness.
I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.
When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been forever telling stories since I was very young.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can't really fuel your creative existence any longer because it's not stable, however amazing and exciting it may be.
I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
