Quotes About Creativity

If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life.

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

With age, art and life become one.

I never knew that ["Hank Zipzer"] would happen in my life. It is one of the greatest things. It is like a gift from God.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.

You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.

I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life.

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.

If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique.

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.