Quotes About Creativity

It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment--that explodes in poetry.

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.

Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.

But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat.

We write from the marrow of our bones.

I have a notion that genius knows itself; that Dickinson chose her seclusion, knowing she was exceptional and knowing what she needed.

I don't think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope

She is here because no-one else was there when worn-to-skeleton her enemy died. Her love. Her twin. Marghanita dreamed the intravenous, the intensive the stainless steel before she ever saw them. She's not practical, you know, they used to say. She's the artist, she got away.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

I don't believe there's a cap on creativity and passion.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

My only passion is music.

I've always had a passion for music - it's a real part of me.

Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

My mother, Agnes Dereon Beyince, was a seamstress and designer, and her passion passed down to me.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

I was never in this for the money. It's all about the passion for the music.

My father is a great actor, but I am not into acting. Instead, I took to film direction, which is my passion.

I have always made music with passion, love and honesty.

There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

What I have inherited from my father is my passion for my work which is my music.

I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older. If I can, I'll be one of those people because what I do is my passion.

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.