Quotes About Creativity

Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

I'm living a life until I die so there will be no shortage of things to sing about.

Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the most free moments of my life...I think it's also one thing that scares me the most.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

The object of art is to give life shape.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

Don't follow in my footsteps. Be original, and create your own path. Be a trailblazer! Do you! Be better than me. Do you! Be happy and have joy in your life.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.