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Quotes About Creativity

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.
~ Steven Soderbergh
My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.
~ Robert Dilts
Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.
~ Steve Jobs
I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.
~ Grandma Moses
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
No one else can match the environment we're creating for expanding the game experience to everyone. Our path is not linear, but dynamic.
~ Satoru Iwata
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Isn't every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn't there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?
~ James Agee
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.
~ George Bellows
I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.
~ Anthony Kiedis
The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.
~ Maxfield Parrish
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.
~ Garry Kasparov
I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience
~ Dave Brubeck
Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.
~ Carolee Schneemann
For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
~ Damien Rice
The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.
~ Antoni Tapies
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
~ Anish Kapoor
I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.
~ Britt Robertson
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
~ Henri Poincare
I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.
~ Jerry Pinkney
An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.
~ Mark Tobey
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.
~ Kenzaburo Oe
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
~ Chuck Close