Quotes About Creativity

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.

I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.