Quotes About Creativity

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny.

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.

My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

Didacticism is the death of art.

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there.

Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.

Give me B movies or give me death!

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.