Quotes About Creativity

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.

I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.

When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I've spent my life doing the opposite.

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.