Quotes About Creativity

Life imitates art but art intimidates life.

I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

Let's have a day in the life of Gerard." Going to get coffee! Going to get coffee!' That's all it would be.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

When life gets you down, make a comforter!

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession.

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.