Quotes About Creativity

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

I didn't kill myself when things went wrong I didn't turn to drugs or teaching I tried to sleep but when I couldn't sleep I learned to write I learned to write what might be read on nights like this by one like me

I write to murder the selves that whisper untruths to me.

Just as art is the concealment of art, laissezfaire is the concealment of tremendous generosity.

We made a little garden in the middle of L.A. so our hearts they wouldn't harden & our spirits they could play

I am this thing that needs to sing.

I'm blackening pages, but I don't know if it's writing.

Then it turned into a game. Games are nature's most beautiful creation. All animals play games, and the truly Messianic vision of the brotherhood of creatures must be based on the idea of the game, indeed-

If I knew where the good songs were, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery.

I was always working steady, but I never called it art.

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

The artist is the closest man comes to being God.

a good way to make some cash without worrying about boring things like originality or operating capital.

I've been working for other people my whole life, and all they do is ignore my ideas. That's if I'm lucky. If I'm not lucky, they ruin my ideas and then make me

If necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is the father. The Einstein summation convention is the offspring of this happy marriage.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.