Quotes About Creativity

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.

I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

There's only one thing in life, and that's the continual renewal of inspiration.

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

I could always live in my art but never in my life

The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing…with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But it's the life in between—that's all I got.

As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.

The movie of my life must be really low budget.

You take music out of life and love. I don't want to be on a planet without music.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.