Quotes About Creativity

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

Man's most serious activity is play.

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.