Quotes About Creativity

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

Spice is life. It depends upon what you like... have fun with it. Yes, food is serious, but you should have fun with it.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

Is the cinema more important than life?

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one!

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

We have art in order not to die of life.

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.