Quotes About Creativity

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

Some of them are wearing skirts that I'm pretty sure are supposed to be belts.

I've learned to write by mimicking other writers. It's the way we learned to speak—reproducing sounds—and it's the way, I think, to learn how to write.

He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

Seated one day at the organ,I was weary and ill at ease,And my fingers wandered idlyOver the noisy keys.

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

we treated both our children and ourselves, that our readers would catch the spirit behind the skills and be inspired to improvise

4. YOU CAN GIVE THE CHILD HIS WISHES IN FANTASY. "I wish I could make the banana ripe for you right now!

This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.

Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other worlds.

The making and doing of the image must persist, until the aesthetic ecstasy that demonstrates and proves the finality and wholeness of the image is fully and unambiguously evident.

Inspiration as the primary source of artistic creativity is no more than an attractive fiction, for spontaneity plays as relatively minor a role in art as it does in philosophical and scientific thinking.

Does anybody honestly believe that human progress originates in the composite brain of the majority and not in the brain of the individual personality? Or may it be presumed that for the future human civilization will be able to dispense with this as a condition of its existence? But may it not be that, to-day, more than ever before, the creative brain of the individual is indispensable?

In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?

Art and science were in German hands. Apart from the new artistic trash, which might easily have been produced by a negro tribe, all genuine artistic inspiration came from the German section of the population.