Quotes About Creativity

People mistake being weird for being talented.

I prefer being weird, crazy, weird, ridiculous and weird, than being absolutely boring.

I really hate people who are weird and controversial for the sake of being weird and controversial. I'm lookin at you Lady Gaga.

Being "weird" by the norm of normal society is a work of art. Stay weird, wonderful souls.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Beauty?...To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Mortals must do what they are here to do creatively or they will become cranky.

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary wings.

I have two questions for you: What do you need to make your creativity shine through? Why do you keep ignoring it?

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. Let us now celebrate the trope and willful enjambment. Let us now celebrate the assonance and alliteration of all of it. Let us now celebrate the sound of our own voices.

With innovation & creativity find ways to reach your goals, but never neglect the experiences you gain on your way to reach the goal. These experiences will help make you a better person and will prepare you for bigger things in future.

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

I forgive Woody Allen for being overly zany and self-obsessed. We all have flaws, but we don't all make magic.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.