Quotes About Creativity

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark 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.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

The secret of life is in art.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.

If life deals you lemons, make lemonade; if it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Dreams are necessary to life.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

The less routine the more life.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.