Quotes About Creativity

Don't get it right, get it written.

Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley.

pavement artist—you

Come on, guys," I said, laughing. "What? Did you think he was going to ask me to the prom?" I teased. "Or, hey, Mom's burning macaroni and cheese for supper Sunday night; maybe he can come over and she can tell him about the time she jumped off a ninety-story balcony in Hong Kong with a parachute she made out of pillowcases.

You're going to have to find another way to your room... Oh, and Cameron, dear, please make sure your alternative route doesn't involve crawling inside any walls.

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.

Inés y la alegría es una obra de ficción inserta en la crónica de un acontecimiento histórico real. Para afrontar su escritura, un formato nuevo para mí, he mantenido ciertas lealtades y me he tomado ciertas libertades.

Qué irónico que la gente descarte las matemáticas como la antítesis de la creatividad. Están desperdiciando una forma de arte más antigua que cualquier libro, más profunda que cualquier poema, y más abstracta que cualquier otra cosa.

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being cheated.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy.

Rules should always be bent, if not broken. It's the only way to have any fun.

i love purple and blue!!!!!

That was the exhilaration of creating one's own compositions, that one's personal melodies could be reborn in the voices and spirits of others.

her heart came through best when she was using her needle and thread.

No se vestía para atraer miradas de aprobación de su marido ni de ninguna multitud, sino para conformarse a un propio ideal secreto. Una fantasía tomada de una novela decimonómica, una imagen tanto intemporal como perenne. Una heroína romántica de su propia creación.

It's easy to recognize the surface of beauty. To see it with your two eyes. But the challenge to the artist is conveying the many layers underneath.

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

Honey, there is no one right way to eat cannelloni.

So he was frustrated with her. Most people rolled their eyes when they got frustrated. Alaric made dolphins do ballet.