Quotes About Creativity

You're only limited by your lack of imagination and fear of appearing stupid.

My biggest fear always is that I'll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

My greatest fear: repetition.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

I just write when fear overtakes me.

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.