“When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.” KindWantedCreativityGrowing UpComedyGrowingUltimateFeedingParodySpinal Tap Author:Ben Stiller
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.” IfsMadeEndsGovernmentWantedResultsCreativityCuttingFailingCallingActivityEssentialsAspectScientistWork OutExperimentsInventionMade ItHypothesisBeing AfraidAfraid To FailGreat Inventions Author:Edwin Land
“Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.” WritingKindMadeEndsPlayKidsWantedThreeTermInterestCreativityRocksBandDecidedSingersNeighborhoodRock Bands Author:Dennis Cooper
“I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.” WholeKidsWantedJobsActorsMy OwnActingResponsibilityCreativityUniversityI RealizedWhole LifeQuittingDepressingTaking ResponsibilityI QuitReally Depressing Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always had this feeling of wanting to be a comedian and wanting to be an actor.” HeartFeelingsKidsWantedActorsCreativityGrowing UpGrowingComedianBeing A Kid Author:Chris Gethard
“What I wanted to be and who I am is a singer and a songwriter. I wanted to be onstage, and I wanted the world to hear my music. The product of that is fame and the disgusting celebrity that goes along with it. But celebrity does not equal creativity.” WorldDoeWantedCreativityProductsFameEqualSingersWho I AmDisgustingSongwriters Author:Katy Perry
“If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, that's pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"” IfsPersonsMomentsWantedVoiceCreativityCreativeMankindProductsInternetFitCreative Person Author:Jarvis Cocker
“I was an actor when I was a teenager and it could have been the direction that I headed in. But music and my relationship with music is quite deep, and it really is the nucleus of my creativity. So I gave up acting so I could pursue music fully, and I never thought about really going back. And then [director] Lee Daniels met me and wanted to work with me, and that's how it started.” Has BeensWantedActorsActingCreativityMetsDirectorsMusic IsPursueTeenagerCould Have BeenGave UpNucleus Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Lee was very much his own person so it's impossible to know quite what he would have thought but part of the reason for me staying is that I believe he always wanted this to be a house that would be here forever, that he never wanted his name not to mean anything any more. And I want that too. I want Alexander McQueen to continue. Then, in a hundred years time, there will still be this house that he created, this great place that represents modernity and creativity and beauty and romance and all of those things. That, I think, would be amazing.” ThinkingKnowsWantYearsBelieveMeanPersonsStillsReasonWould BeWantedRomanceHouseNamesI BelieveCreativityForeverImpossibleHundredStayingModernityMcqueen Author:Sarah Burton
“I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.” IfsBelieveWantedI BelieveCreativityCompromise Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas
“If you look at the world today, there are as many solutions as there are problems. I think that is a big part of creativity. That's why I started Urban Zen. Because I wanted to dress and address people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldLooksProblemBigsTodayWantedCreativitySolutionsDressesAddressesUrbanWorld Today Author:Donna Karan
“I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.” BookWantedCreativityDressesMetaphorWeddingVocabularyWedding DayWedding Dress Author:Vera Wang