Quotes About Creativity

There are far more good answers "out there" than there are in you.

when life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life.

I have a split - of my real home-life side that's real-life, and then the creative side that is not necessarily real-life, but it intersects my real-life so much.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.