Quotes About Creativity

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life.

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

Ipsy's goal has always been to create a community that inspires women around the world to express their own unique beauty.

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'.

Play is the work of the child.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.