Quotes About Creativity

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting.

I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

I would rather be funny than gorgeous, absolutely. Because it's too hard to be gorgeous, you know. I could make a stab at gorgeous as long as I had something funny to say to get out of it.

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.

It feels amazing to just be here and be able to share my jokes with the world. It's not so much about being a girl, it's about being a funny comic.

I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.

Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways.

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

If you follow the crowd, you will go no further than the crowd. But if you walk alone, and find your own way, you will likely find yourself in places no one has ever been before.