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Quotes About Creativity

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.
~ Terrence Malick
If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance.
~ Howard Hawks
I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.
~ Alex D. Linz
I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
~ Willem de Kooning
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.
~ Dick Bruna
If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.
~ Winslow Homer
The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.
~ Elliott Erwitt
Pictures help you to form the mental mold.
~ Robert Collier
I have always loved taking pictures. When I was young, I would carry a small camera with me on the sets.
~ Waheeda Rehman
Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.
~ Edward Burtynsky
Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
~ Martin Kippenberger
When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
~ Michael Douglas
I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.
~ David Bailey
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
~ David Hockney
I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
~ Zooey Deschanel
I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.
~ Terry Richardson
I take a lot of pictures.
~ Damian Loeb
Music is like art, so I just paint all my pictures and put 'em out there.
~ Young Dolph
Black with flames, that's how I always envisioned a roadster. That was the classic hot rod. I used to draw pictures of roadsters with flames on them in school.
~ Michael Anthony
I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.
~ Giorgio Moroder
I don't make deals, I make pictures.
~ Carlo Ponti
I paint pictures with my raps.
~ E-40
Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.
~ Rihanna