Quotes About Creativity

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession…. Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Self-Reliance

You shall discuss dreams, not deny!

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

I look for things that no one I know, even myself, would ever come up with. If your solution is something that your friends or family might come up with, throw it away.

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.