Quotes About Creativity

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.