Quotes About Creativity

Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

My wife and I, we met making a movie. This is not just our job, it's our life. It's what we do naturally whether we're working together or not.

Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that's one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that's entirely different.

I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.