Quotes About Creativity

Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities!

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

I grew up watching movies that just transformed my vision, not just in cinema, in life, and you discover that this - it's an endless tool.

As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

Now life is imitating art.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.

Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.