Quotes About Creativity

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

You manufacture beauty with your mind

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.

I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster.

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.

In art economy is always beauty.

I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.

Beauty is my heritage, but home decor is very much my passion.

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.