Quotes About Creativity

Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating, but no one else in the world has what you have—your voice, your eyes, your feeling and perspective. Other people have written great books, but no one else will ever write YOUR book. It's worth writing. That is the belief that carries me through.

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

There was a great brightness and, um...Imagine what it would look like if you could see music, or thought.

When the rest of the mind has fled, sometimes there's music left.

Dragons aren't good at metaphor.

Music is only work if someone else makes you do it.

There's nothing 'just' about stories. Stories are the most real.

Finding nothing, she went back inside and MacGyvered a reflector using pieces of cardboard covered with tinfoil.

Wow, Cross. I think you missed your calling. Screw demon hunting: you should clearly be writing Hallmark cards.

Researchers say that sketching helps extend the memory. That these throwaway scribblings "reduce the burden we experience" as we're trying to remember something or solve a problem.

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.

The VW doesn't make you think of Hitler and genocide. It's a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the sake of my soul.

Whenever I have a problem, I sing. Then I realize my voice is a lot worse than my problem.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

Writing, it was like a heavenly balm, it was like the flowing out of deep waters, it was like the lifting of a load from the spirit; it brought with it a sense of relief, of assuagement.

The eyes themselves were the eyes of a writer, always a little tired in expression.

For together with those who themselves being normal, had long put intellects above bodies, were writers, painters, musicians and scholars, men and women who, set apart from their birth, had determined to hack out a niche in existence.

A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.

Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.