Quotes About Creativity

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.

It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.

You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it.

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.

Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement.

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

There's a real power in collaboration. I've found that in collaborating while making art, it takes you to a place that you wouldn't necessarily have the confidence to go on your own.

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

To me, if the writing doesn't have rhythm, it feels dead. I lose all confidence. The music has to emerge to feel confident enough to move on to the next major chapter.

They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

These five years as a couturier have really changed my way of seeing fashion and my confidence with fashion. Couture is a dream.

Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. So I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.