Quotes About Creativity

You named a dog the size of Bigfoot Fluffy?

Because all the brilliant ones- they can sing it and they can paint it, but they can't do it. You can't expect them to love you.

Just tell the story!

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

When he traveled, he was writing. When he was at the pub, he was writing. He would stop in the middle of a staircase or a crowded street to write. When he ran out of paper, he would write on his shirt cuffs. He was always writing. He was one of the most prolific writers who ever lived. A hundred books, thousands of essays, hundreds of poems.

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

Like Mormonism and Jazz, Parentology is a uniquely American, improvisational approach to the raising of children.

See how I sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

And I just keep going day after day, year after year. Waiting for the patriarchy to die, and through my work, killing it.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Researching and writing my novel has taken me to some really dark places. It is when you are in these dark places that you can see: there is always hope, there is always love.

If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.

I want to make the world a more magickal place. To give magick a form that people appreciate, and that changes their lives. To create art that will make people want to forever reject the mundane and mediocre world they've been surrounded by

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

It also comes as a surprise that the term was invented not to talk about altruism or acts of kindness, but to explain how we can enjoy a sonata or a sunset. Empathy, for Vischer, was creative seeing, reshaping the world so as to find ourselves reflected in it. In

Rorschach knew Binet's work and was familiar with Binet's own inspiration—Leonardo da Vinci, who in his "Treatise on Painting" described throwing paint at a wall and looking at the stains for inspiration.

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.