Quotes About Creativity

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

What makes you feel alive gives meaning to your life.

Lets find a path that leads us to highest purpose, and if we dont see one that works for us, lets create our path, blaze our own trail and ravel in a blaze of glory!

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

I take out my pen and paper. I'd write how much I love you. I'd write just what you make me do, because you are my breakthrough. But the thing is, I can't say these words. It would just be too absurd.

I'm a writer," she declared before she drained the glass. "I should learn about everything.

Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

This life was a dream of my own making, one where my imagination was my only boundary. It was a life that I alone commanded.

Being like everyone else is highly overrated.

You going to kill the Patrei with a spoon?

I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.

I was always observing. Even while talking, living, going through every motion, I was watching myself and the situation. That's a writer. Always observing.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

It's not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

The enactment of critical play exhibits at least three kinds of action: unplaying, re-dressing or reskinning, and rewriting.

Every so often a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it. Picasso did it with cubism, then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. —Willem de Kooning

When I lost my possessions, I found my creativity," said E. Y. "Yip" Harburg, the lyricist behind The Wizard of Oz. "I felt I was being born for the first time."11

The abstract artist, he said, would be repeatedly challenged by such skeptics asking, "'What does it mean?'… 'Is it a sky, a house, a horse?'" To which they should respond with confidence and honesty, "'No, it is a painting.'"29

There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of the creative fire.

the artist through his or her work revealed pure spirit so that men mired in the bitter reality of daily life might find the strength to continue.30