Quotes about "Creativity & Arts"

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances. ”

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process. ”

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. ”

Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another. ”

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician. ”

There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control. ”

For me, the audition process always starts with a few questions: Who am I? What am I trying to get across? Why am I trying to get that across? Where am I emotionally? It's a lot to do with my foundation, and I go from there. ”

I like owning my own narrative. It depends: I either give it all up, or I don't have any control. It's really hard to go halfway. Like with modeling, for example, I kind of give up all creative control, and that's just that. But when it comes to my own personal art, I'm very O.C.D. I see something a very certain way. ”

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition. ”

Death is astute as a master. It's a process that teaches people aspects of themselves. ”