Quotes About Creativity

I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.