Quotes About Creativity

Children have generative power. They create meaning as they busily connect with whatever is happening. But grown-ups often forget that ability. They tend to lose that playful, adventuresome, creative generativity by which they can ask themselves: What's worth doing today?

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

God is the Poet, and we are the verses or songs He writes.

Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Gli uomini si vestono di nero e di grigio. Qualcuno osa con colori autunnali e camicie variopinte. E' il problema degli uomini: vogliono essere presi sul serio, quindi pensano di dover far credere che sono privi di fantasia.

Muzica a fost inventat? pentru a compensa absen?a ploii.

Artists never finish a project — they just abandon it.

The story tells us that living the life of an artist is not as useful as living our lives as a work of art.

After having been made a wife to an older man and an attendant to a princess, the identity she chose to retain was the one she had acquired by her own initiative: that of an author.

In a way, everyone was a Don Quixote, their heads alive with plots and characters, even if they didn't act on them directly.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Most people just see a blank page and hear nothing. I see a universe waiting to be born and hear voices that want to speak...

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive.

I had a fascination with 3D that goes back to the View-Master. I'd always dreamed of making a film in 3D. It's like a combination of theatre and film. There's something 3D gives to a movie that takes you to another land. Working with RealD creatively was a liberating experience. Thank you RealD for allowing us to make something like Hugo .