Creative Tool Quotes

Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.

The body becomes the carrier for the work. It's not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don't really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it's always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want to listen to it.

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

I don't ever want to be gratuitous, for the sake of being gratuitous, but when it serves the stories and the characters, it's nice to be able to do that, realistically and with credibility. You don't want to do it for the sake of it, or shoe-horn it in. But, it's a good tool to have in the toolbox.

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.

Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

I'm just the instrument for the song to do whatever it's supposed to do-heal, inspire or encourage. It's not all about me, it's about the song. I'm just the lucky girl who gets to sing these songs.