Quotes about "Creativity & Arts"

Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality. ”

Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise. ”

Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart. ”

Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity. ”

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet. ”

The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games. ”

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character. ”

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me. ”

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process. ”

There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set. ”