Quotes About Creativity

I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is important.

Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.

Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses. They are my daydreams, but they have passed from dreamland into the world of everyday items to wear.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.

I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.

By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

Life is a lot like skateboarding.

It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

The painting has a life of its own

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

Life has more imagination than we do.