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Quotes About Creativity

I have very diverse tastes in music, and I don't, like, make distinctions between what I can't and can't listen to. In fact, I could never understand why anybody would do that in the first place. My attitude is, 'I can't make music if I don't like music.'
~ Corey Taylor
My attitude is there are at least hundreds of interesting startups that are going to get going in every year.
~ David Cohen
Creativity is not talent but attitude.
~ Jenova Chen
I think I'm a really hard worker, and I feel like my attitude is to just enjoy the process of being creative and developing and 'just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.'
~ Molly Shannon
When I was younger, I was trying to create from attitude more than anything else.
~ Robert Trujillo
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.
~ H. L. Mencken
Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.
~ H. L. Wayland
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Many works would be senseless, real junk, but for the fact that, being art, they are exhibited because they have a message of almost religious importance, interpreting man and his world - yes, perhaps even as junk.
~ H. R. Rookmaaker
Enjoyable work is creative work,
~ H. Spencer Lewis
But only by making workers into thinkers and doers will firms inspire workers to excel.
~ H. Thomas Johnson
A work force empowered to learn and innovate must be the backbone of a strategy to create flexibility by removing constraints.
~ H. Thomas Johnson
write, write or die.
~ H.D.
If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for dogs, cats, and chimpanzees but doesn't work quite so well for women and men. Without the capacity to freely shape our own lives, much as a sculptor might carve stone, we inevitably slip into negativity and depression.
~ H.E. Davey
Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of living.
~ H.E. Davey
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?
~ H.R. Giger
I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.
~ H.R. Wakefield
Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can't drive? A lot. They're not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.
~ Ha Jin
But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.
~ Ha Jin
In the depths of my being I have never been one of them. I have just written what I experienced.
~ Ha Jin
In short, he must be loyal only to his art.
~ Ha Jin
Today, Korea is one of the most 'inventive' nations in the world-it ranks among the top five nations in terms of the number of patents granted annually by the US Patent Office.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.
~ Hakim Bey