Quotes About Creativity

Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience.

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.

I would strongly encourage anybody embarking on photography as a career to embrace and enjoy the whole process. Being a photographer can be a wonderful way to experience the world.

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.