Quotes About Creativity

ART. What's it all about? This is what ART is about…ART is when an artist looks at something…like a horse, for instance…and they see something in that horse that excites them…SO they do something about it. They tell you about it…in any one of a number of ways.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax all you need is a book." ---Dr. Seuss

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

You sank our toy ship / sank it deep in the cake. You shook up our house / and you bent our new rake!" ~ Fish, to Cat

Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks.

A knitter only appears to be knitting yarn. Also being knitted are winks, mischief, sighs, fragrant possibilities, wild dreams.

Children raced outside. She surveyed their trail — traces of sticky fingerprints across everything, like wee poems.

To whoever invented fantasy, redwood trees, and apple pie for breakfast: well done.

"Most poems are never finished," (I was defensive). He sighed: "No, most poems are never started."

One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of the night.

Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness.

I cant even find the perfect brush so I can paint whats going through my mind. Racing gainst myself but Im a couple steps behind.

The team that I belong to, the artists I put on wit dont ever ask for nothin cause them niggas got they own shit.

Fuck you pussy ass hater you should do you, you aint heard of me then you should go and get a Blues Clue.

I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures.

I think better when Im not sober.

With a canvas Im a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin.

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

We work long hours, but we are laughing most of the time, and that's where my other valuable lesson came from: to feel blessed and recognize that working with people you like will make you want to work more! Everyone wears many hats and we all like to do many different things at our company. We all dream stuff up, but more important, we find ways to make it a reality.

Musical Genius

Good ideas rarely seem like good ideas at their inception, that's what stops the majority of people from having them

It is in he nature of love, and in the nature of art, to be complex, disturbing, taxing.

she lets us see, she lets us think, she lets us feel, that we can get to a position where we do not have to struggle, we do not have to choose, and that there are ways of being in the world that allow us, in the same breath, to live in our domestic ordinariness and still create.

If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.