Quotes About Creativity

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life.

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.