Quotes About Creativity

A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you will have gone too far.

If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

Stop making the same games about shooting something and driving; try something else. There is a market for that.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

I've never stopped writing, never stopped recording.

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.

I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.

I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom and everybody in my family remembers it pretty good. It's definitely true.

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

I've kind of stopped valuing laughter as the end-all measurement of what I'm doing.

I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.

In September 2012, I got the blues pretty bad, so I stopped playing for a little while. I started to renew my playing by the time February of 2013 came around. I would go up and rehearse to different songs, play stuff like Count Basie records, jazz or rap.