Quotes About Creativity

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

Never do anything that isn't play.

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives and times.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.

I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.

I'm kind of interested in visual communication. For me it's more about suggesting than arguing a point.

I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.