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Quotes About Creativity

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
~ Ted Rall
I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
~ Isabel Allende
Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.
~ Clive Thompson
It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.
~ Greg Graffin
I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.
~ Mekhi Phifer
I'm really bad at knowing if something I've done is any good. I can't work it out; I can't be objective about anything I do.
~ Andrew Haigh
Before we start anything creatively, we have a firm understanding of our objective and our frame of mind for the campaign. Who's our audience, and what's their day-to-day behavior? How can we complement those behaviors? How is our message more than an interruption? Why would people care about what we're saying?
~ David Droga
When I wrote my book about Amsterdam, the main objective was to talk about the city's creativity rather than just its design.
~ Marcel Wanders
I think the main objective is to move people, make people think in their heart. I personally am not interested in appealing to other musicians. To me, it's more inspiring to move someone who doesn't know anything about music but has a feel.
~ Joe Satriani
To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.
~ Amitava Kumar
I personally don't prefer acting and directing in something because I don't have the same objectivity.
~ Malik Yoba
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
~ Anish Kapoor
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least.
~ Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I don't have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects.
~ Alessandro Michele
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.
~ Julie Burchill
Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.
~ Jonathan Ive
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.
~ Stephen Greenblatt
Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.
~ Frederick Reines
It's very important to put children in an environment where they can take things apart; where they can break things and then learn to fix them; where they can trust their hands and know their capacity to manipulate objects.
~ Hope Jahren
Fashion blogs are great, but I also take inspiration from movies, nature, everyday objects.
~ Lisa Hanawalt
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
~ Nick Cave
Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
~ Tobias Wolff