Quotes About Creativity

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

When life gives you lemons, get tequila and salt.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.