Quotes About Creativity

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often times they don't answer me when I am trying to speak to one of them.

When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

I get to do some kind of artwork almost everyday and it just so happens that I can pay the bills and support my family while doing it.

There was a lot of creative energy that I had, that I feel wasn't understood, and I think that whole world for me felt like another family, another place where I could feel heard.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.

And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that beat family for a while and document it.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday.

Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.