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Quotes About Creativity

What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
~ Claude Monet
You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.
~ Curtis Hanson
All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.
~ David Gemmell
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.
~ Elvis Costello
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
~ Ezra Pound
I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.
~ Frank Carson
It is play and only play that makes man complete.
~ Friedrich Schiller
I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.
~ George Rickey
I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.
~ Gloria Vanderbilt
Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.
~ Loren Eiseley
Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.
~ Molly Ringwald
MAN'S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.
~ Napoleon Hill
It doesn't matter to me whether I write in a man's voice or a woman's, or first or third person for that matter. Those choices come down to the story and I just go with it.
~ Nicholas Sparks
As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."
~ Pharrell Williams
In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.
~ Philip Treacy
I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
~ Olivia Thirlby
Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.
~ Ovid
I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
I didn't invent hot water. But when I approach menswear, I do it in a very honest way. And my menswear and womenswear are very similar, in the sense that I put men in leggings and lace shirts.
~ Riccardo Tisci
Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
~ Robert Henri
Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don't follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.
~ Albert Einstein