Quotes About Creativity

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.