Quotes About Creativity

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

It's always going to be easy to live like others or other's life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.