Creative Outcome Quotes

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

Actors don't make a project; a project makes the actors.

I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.

I've done a bunch of collaborations where it goes well and you finish it, but then you're kind of like, "I just don't like it." And it sits there. It can be awkward, but a real musician understands that you're not always going to make what you want it to be. You can't just polish everything into perfection.

When you work with somebody else, you automatically get a mixed voice. You hope it will benefit the story. But you don't know what the result will be.

After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is.

Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.

I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry.

Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.

You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.

The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

Nobody ever knows how big a song is going to be.

I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod.

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby, and you know what's best.

Usually I'm able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less.

I love movies and I like a lot of good television. At the end of the project, I don't care if they changed [it from the book], I just want to look at it and go, "I loved that. That really turned out well."