Quotes About Creativity

Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.

All art requires courage.

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.

I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things.

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

I think there's a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what you want to do when you're an artist in any way, shape or form.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

My dad would often take me to the cinema and I found myself really seduced by the imagery, I think this had a massive impact on how I viewed the world.