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Quotes About Creativity

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
~ Walter Gropius
I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.
~ Anthony Minghella
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired
~ Richard Kemp
To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.
~ Dennis Covington
Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.
~ Dave Kellett
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.
~ Peter James West
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
~ Carlos Fuentes
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
~ Robert Motherwell
Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.
~ Robert Frank
I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.
~ Suzanne Farrell
You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.
~ Bebe
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
~ Jim Harrison
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
~ Erno Rubik
You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.
~ Katherine Dunham
I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.
~ Albert Einstein
Your life can become the background for the art you create.
~ Alicia Keys
Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.
~ Tristan Tzara
I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.
~ Lauren Myracle
Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.
~ Leonor Fini
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
~ Allan Kaprow
Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.
~ Paul Robeson
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
~ Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith
Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.
~ Robert H. Schuller