Quotes About Creativity

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Reconstructions based on bone remains can only reveal the most general characteristics of the creature, since the really distinctive morphological features of any animal are soft tissues which quickly vanish after death. Therefore, due to the speculative nature of the interpretation of the soft tissues, the reconstructed drawings or models become totally dependent on the imagination of the person producing them.

Don't find fault, find a remedy. —Henry Ford

I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

Damned Elmer's Glue! Just let me finish emasculating this eye and I'll be right with you.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love ' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

Once you have mastered the craft, you can use it for whatever purpose you choose.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.