Quotes About Creativity

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.

Ordinary life does not interest me.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.

I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.

I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top - what more could one ask of life?

I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

Great artists have no country.