Quotes About Creativity

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

My dream is to continue to be an artist who gets to be different individuals from different walks of life.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

Life is serious but art is fun!

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.