Quotes About Creativity

What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower.

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

Being imaginative and playful doesn't make you any less of an adult," Gabriel said gently. "It only makes you a more interesting one.

Jesus, you get sentimental when you're high on paint fumes.

Father, wouldn't it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited?

My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

But to me it sounded like someone throwing a roll of paper towels and a can of frosting into an oven and saying, "You know, I think there's a good chance of this turning into a cake.

Isn't it too late at night to begin something like this?" "Not when one has a dire case of imagine-somnia.

You'll have to think of a way to solve this, Evie. Think of something fast... because otherwise..." He paused to nip hungrily at her ear, "... otherwise I'm about to screw you senseless.

I'd like to do more than sketch you naked. I want to draw directly on you with feather and ink … flowers around your breasts, trails of stars down your thighs." He let his warm lips brush the edge of her ear. "I want to map your body, chart the north, south, east, and west of you. I would—

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

The first rule of writing is that there are no rules.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

The main thing is finding the time to sit down and write. You have to make the time.

In our laps, the margins are clear and tidy. Three-fourths of an inch on the left and right padding, two inches below, and one inch on top. The clarity provides room for creativity. The structure offers space. But why is it in our lives those blank spaces are so much harder to find? And when we do find them, instead of breathing in that sacred space, why are we so much more likely to fill in that place?

he's made the violin cool and sexy.

No," I answer in English. "The musician, the player, makes all the difference, which is why he should have an instrument worthy of him.

Lisa Renee Jones

I want you to be there." "Why, Faith?" "Because that painting was the first one I painted for me in a very long time. And you're the first thing I've done for me in a very long time.

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

However, a very wise man of my acquaintance once said: 'I just had this dumped on me. Brilliance takes time.

I just had this dumped on me. Brilliance takes time.'" Justinius