Quotes About Creativity

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

I have gradually confused photography with life.

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

Writing is making sense of life.

Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.