Quotes About Creativity

Drag the kids to the art museum in the morning,

It is up to each of us to sing as we feel moved by the overall song of life.

She withdrew into herself, First writing just for one, Then touching thousands. She incarnated ghosts, hurt, and joy Into paper-and-ink stories of wonder

Spirituality is creativity. Only with creativity can you remold your personality into a spiritual vehicle.

When admiring a painting, Don't examine the paint. When meeting an artist, Don't look at the brush.

Be creative. Thus we contribute and thus we elevate our souls.

Only through lighting a living fire within ourselves can we dance quickly and spontaneously enough to meet the rhythm of life.

Our imaginations are in thrall to the institutions of oppression.

I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

A precari Des d'un ponent eixut, contradictori. Tot el que tinc és poc per redreçar dignament la malmesa singladura. Tampoc no em sobra temps. I, això no obstant, els versos pel seu compte bescanvien silencis per paraules i exigeixen un alt tribut de vida. No puc, doncs, reposar ni vull fer-ho. Més m'estimo veure'm entrar lentament al recinte que jo mateix he anat configurant i seure i esperar fins que algú em cridi des d'un ponent contradictori.

el escritor es un inimputable, como lo es un niño o un loco. Puede perpetrar actos trascendentales de consecuencias cataclísmicas, pero como un menor de edad que no calcula las consecuencias por falta de madurez, el escritor debe ser absuelto cuando se constate que de modo impredecible e involuntario ha cambiado el devenir natural de las cosas.

I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.

I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

Right from the beginning, I've always gone to stories when I feel that I can tell them in a special way, that they're mine, that they won't let me go.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

When we show up to make art, we need to get still enough to hear what wants to be expressed though us, and then we need to step out of the way and let it. We must be willing to abide in a space of not knowing before we can settle into knowing.

I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers.

Live the dream, Potato.

I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.

After passionately nursing this idea for about an hour, I suddenly had another idea: no I wouldn't. Of course I wouldn't make an entire city out of cereal boxes in the basement. The moment I had this second thought, I knew this was the real one.

When I said "a lot of work," I moved my hands apart to represent all the work. He stared at the space between my palms and asked if I played the accordion. I could feel the accordion between my hands and how impressed he would be if I said yes.

Everyone knows that if you paint a human being entirely with house paint he will live, as long as you don't paint the bottom of his feet. It takes only a little thing like this to kill a person.