Quotes About Creativity

When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.

How do we fight back? By creating art.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

A picture is a poem without words

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.

For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.

You could be writing the book that changes your life.