Quotes About Creativity

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent.

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.

Definition is the death of discovery.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

That kind of imagination is why we're not dead.

The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.

Try and make them understand that while artists can recycle their suffering in their art, I didn't know what to do with mine.

Some things are meant to live and die with an artist

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix.

Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.