Quotes About Creativity

A good idea is a good idea and my work should compete on its own merits, not based on the size of my fan base.

Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.

As the conductor Leopold Stokowski once famously said, "…a painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.

Well, I don't particularly like game shows. I mean, I think I did them well. I could do them, but it didn't mean I really liked them. I never watched any of the game shows that were on television at the time, like The Price Is Right, To Tell The Truth, all those shows. I think that also probably gave me an edge, because I never really copied much of what they did. I liked my shows--they made me laugh--but I didn't like anybody else's.

There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

He never learned to read or write so wellBut he could play a guitar just like ringing a bell.

Roll over BeethovenAnd tell Tchaikovsky the news.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

Art saved my life

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.

All of you have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.