Quotes About Creativity

If you want to surrender to creativity, surrender to creation.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose