Quotes About Creativity

I am always locked in my design studio.

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.

Don't write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.

In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music -- all with love. In other words, create a magic world.

That looks nice." said Kit. "The toast does, too." "Just some tricks I've learned," Mother said. "Cutting the toast in triangles makes it look like there's more than there really is. And I'm hoping the peach slices will distract our guests from the fact that we've had oatmeal four times this week already. But it's cheap, and it's filling.

It might not appear in the newspaper, it might not change anything or anyone else, but writing it would change the way she felt.

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

But in order to achieve that noble shade of yellow I achieved last summer I simply had to give myself quite a boost.

My interest in drawing has died down here in England, but maybe I'll be in the mood again some day or other. Right now I am doing a great deal of reading

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

Inspiration always arrives unannounced.

Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

Everything solid was first an idea.