Quotes About Creativity

I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.

Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!

His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip)

I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day,' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see.

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

At the morning's PowerPoint It's full of unique bullet points

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?

I went to art and design high school with a lot of people taking fashion. They would get up in the morning, and what they put on meant a lot to them.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.