Quotes About Creativity

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Art is not a career - it's a life.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.