Creativity Quotes

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days.

The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

She has given me a way out.

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

We can build anything in our imagination that's where all creation begins in your life

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

Take care of your life force and always keep it streaming. Always be active and creative, and never ever stop dreaming.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.

You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.

Keep it weird. They'll get it later.

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.