Quotes About Creativity

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around.

The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

Art for me is like breathing.

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

Art is a delayed echo.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.