Quotes About Creativity

I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

Doubt is the father of invention.

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

My father did advertising photography.

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

Working with Nancy Meyers ("Something's Gotta Give") and ... Charles Shyer ("Father of the Bride"), and I'm proud of "Reds," and I'm proud of my movies with Woody (Allen).

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.