Quotes About Creativity

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.

My life is art. Its how I express God.

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life

Life should be lived as play.

My ultimate goal in life, with my music, is to make a movement.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.

Something horrible happens and I try to make it funny. It's really a tortured life. You go to a salsa bar, at your local burrito stand, and you know, you think "how can you make a joke about this?"

When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.