Quotes About Creativity

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.

Women never cease to impress and inspire me.

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.

Before my sister, Sara, and I went to bed at night, my mom would show us books on Manet and other artists. Even then I was always really interested in how the women looked in the images.

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties!

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.

I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.

Women's voices, LGBT voices, and the voices of people of color are all needed in any art form if we want to explore the true possibilities of that art form. Diversity is strength.