Quotes About Creativity

It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.

I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

All literature is scarry.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

I wanted to say, with as much sarcasm as I could put into my voice, "Sir, your poem is both original and interesting, but the part that is interesting is not original, and the part that is original is not interesting." But all I said was, "Not bad, you need to work on it some more.

Sometimes poets have to be imperfect so their poetry can be perfect.

Life is seen as an ongoing war between art and philistinism - and although the philistines may win some of the battles, it is literature that always wins the war.

You are what you write.

you've heard that some people at work do more creative work, are more productive, work better as a team, or add more value to a client under pressure. But it's not true. Moreover

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

Dreams can be of value even if you don't have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author." [As quoted in the author biography on Mankell's official website .]

Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept