“You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.” KnowsWorldMindMeanSaidMightFallHellCreativeAreasDecidedProfessionNakedCreative Mind Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
“I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.” WantKindCreativeDecidedAbsolutesPressureIdeologyTrendsCreative Freedom Author:Gao Xingjian
“No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.” FirstsBelieveArtArtistHumanityBlackWhiteCreativeSacrificeFieldsSceneRacismDecidedMalesVisualsSexismBlack WomenPenetrateBlacknessVisual Art Author:Faith Ringgold
“While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.” TryingLooksPartyGoneCreativeHugePrideModelsAreasGardenDecidedScalesBe CreativeSaladMiniaturesOverboardBabylon Author:Gregory Maguire
“Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few years back, I switched out of composition and into creative writing so I could work with words.” WritingYearsWantedCreativeCollegeDecidedGradesComposerCompositionCreative WritingEighth Grade Author:Joanna Newsom
“Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner. You evaluate the creative and how the show is run and how the writing staff works, and sometimes you want to freshen the show. We just decided that it was time to do that on Community, and no disrespect to anyone.” WantWritingSometimesShowsRunningCommunityCreativeDecidedStaffMaking ChangesEvaluateDisrespect Author:Robert Greenblatt