Quotes About Creativity

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.