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Quotes About Creativity

I want to do presenting, I love DJing, I love writing but none of it's a guaranteed job so it's still very scary.
~ James Haskell
Reading feeds writing: it presents you with new ideas to engage with.
~ Celeste Ng
People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
~ Bryce Courtenay
Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.
~ Christian Louboutin
One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.'
~ June Diane Raphael
I have an art magazine about drag called 'Velour,' named after myself, and I have a monthly show called 'Nightgowns' that curates and presents some of the most creative and high-quality drag in a professional theater setting.
~ Sasha Velour
I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs. But I want to be the guy that presents new music from both new artists and established artists at the same time.
~ Poo Bear
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
~ Raymond Chandler
We don't believe start-ups are the private preserve of only garage start-ups... The corporate garage is going to be the scene of a lot of action.
~ Anand Mahindra
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!
~ Sheila Heti
I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.
~ Krzysztof Penderecki
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
~ Norman McLaren
Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
~ Giacomo Meyerbeer
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
~ Anita Brookner
People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.
~ Josh Homme
Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.
~ Hans-Ulrich Obrist
You want the personality of each performer - whether it's singing or bass or drums or piano - to be intact. In some ways it's much more challenging to preserve that and to also make music that sounds modern.
~ Rostam Batmanglij
In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
~ Carlo Rubbia
The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom.
~ Cornelia Parker
In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
~ Questlove
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Everybody deserves a piece of where they live, in some type of fashion. Music is just my way of preserving that.
~ DJ Premier