Quotes About Creativity

I don't think there's any more dispiriting sight than a great work of art reduced to a slogan on a mug.

I'm always looking for ways to make people laugh, but I also want to make them think. That's the real challenge of satire.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

One of the more flexible words in the English language, art is defined as a human creative skill, doing something as a result of knowledge and practice. It is the mind's eye rendered in visual form.

For those who love it, cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

Complete it-you cannot sell an unfinished book.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

Limited Resources + Increasing Passion = Exponential Innovation

Craig Groeschel

Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise.

Leaders with it do more than just think of new ideas; they actually do the new ideas.

looking at the piles around us—they were like literary land mines just waiting to explode minds.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

much of poetry in the making is the fiddle with a few items. You lay a word against another and wait. You try another word. And another. Yet another. You wait. You begin again. Listening. Looking. For the elusive inevitable thing which has to arrive before it is recognised. And, like Odysseus, may not be recognised at first.

I am not no swine," Archie said. He spread peanut butter on his bread, dotted it with cream cheese and jam, added a piece of ham, and finally topped it with a wedge of banana. "Because a swine is two or more pigs, and I'm only one pig." He added an olive to his masterpiece by way of garnish, and bit off a good quarter of it.

I've always found that if you live in a cramped place, you have cramped thoughts.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

And there you have it, Your Highness. Turning a jug of water into gold.

Steve Jobs was quoted in Business Week as saying "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Lillian Ross, who often wrote about Robin Williams in The New Yorker, said this about the comedian in 2018: "Robin was a genius, and genius doesn't produce normal men next door who are good family men and look after their wives and children. Genius requires its own way of looking at and living in the world, and it isn't always compatible with conventional ways of living.