Quotes About Creativity

It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.

A long and productive career in the world of films is bound to be checkered with success and failures. You cannot have one without the other; the only way not to make a flop is not to make a film.

I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider - anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.

I definitely had some heated but extremely productive chats with screenwriter Justin Monjo, but while it's my story, it's their movie, so I have to allow for compression and poetic license.

Some of the most productive people in history have been self-confessed 'muck-middens,' as my husband would say: Agatha Christie, Benjamin Franklin and even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few.

With the creative stuff, I have highs of being very productive and lows of being not productive. I have that in my moods as well.

Research suggests that someone who is constantly drawing on their creative abilities can, on average, be productive for no more than six hours a day.

I'm by far my most creative and my most productive early in the day.

I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

I've come to understand that migraine is a part of the personality. I have migraine troughs. These often follow high productivity. I have a hypo-manic phase, then I'll crash.

When you care about people's happiness and productivity, you give them what brings out the best in them and their creativity. And if you give them a choice, they'll say, 'I want an iPhone,' or 'I want a Mac.' We think we can win a lot of corporate decisions at that level.

Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.

When I look at other products, I naturally think of ways to improve upon what already exists.

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

I think, in any profession, what you fear most is not being able to perform, about not being able to meet new challenges. The fear of non-acceptance, particularly if in creative art. What happens if the audiences do not like you anymore!

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

I design for a feminine woman who appreciates art a lot, either as a profession or as a hobby.

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.

Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.