Quotes About Creativity

The best artists know what to leave out.

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them.

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.

I'm not sure what [my latest works are] about but I'm convinced they're the best things I've done and I'm going to the world's best museums with them.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.

The moment you think of a joke is the best moment.

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.