Quotes about Creativity

The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

There are a lot of directors I'd still love to work with. Paul Thomas Anderson is someone I'd love to work with. I think Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is very talented. Ang Lee is very talented. I mean, there are a lot of people. There are many great directors out there.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.