Albert Hammond Jr. Quotes

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.

Make good art.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.