Quotes About Creativity

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though.

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

The power of monsters is, it is a way of giving almost tangible substance to fears, beliefs, things that aren't real. You can coalesce it and draw it, or describe it, and it's a monster.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

Imagination is an abuse of power.

The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.

A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they're a gateway to the actual thing. They're like an easy entrance.