Quotes About Creativity

I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.

Color is the fruit of life.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

I never pay attention, to no numbers, no views, comments ... I just try to keep on going, keep on living my life so I can continue to put out music that's real.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery.

Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas.

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

Everyday life inspires me, the situations that we all find ourselves in at one time or another.

Just 'cause somethin' ain't been done Don't mean it can't be did.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.