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Quotes About Creativity

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
~ Sergio Leone
Art is the child of imagination and gives life.
~ Mirka Mora
My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.
~ Joseph Cornell
I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.
~ Philippe Petit
I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
~ Maurice Sendak
Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
~ Tobias Wolff
Being Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm was the best thing to happen to Larry David in life.
~ Larry David
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
~ Maya Angelou
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
~ Robert Hass
Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.
~ Swizz Beatz
To express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art.
~ Jane Heap
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
~ Auguste Rodin
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
~ Fay Weldon
Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.
~ Beth Kephart
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
~ Alfred Lansing
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.
~ Heather Sellers
The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.
~ Richard Kalvar
A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.
~ Thom Gunn
When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.
~ Alexa Von Tobel
Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.
~ Jacek Tylicki
Art is not some fun add-on to life.
~ Grayson Perry
I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.
~ Geoffrey Rush
The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.
~ Ron Ben-Israel
I don't write for a living. I live to write.
~ Marwa Ayad