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Quotes About Creativity

Me reading a QUOTE is interesting, but my own QUOTES I enjoy reading them."
~ Unknown
My effort is completely personal. Every time I make a film, I find myself in debt and I spend years trying to recover. I pursue this personal effort just to make it clear that there is another way to see things.
~ Unknown
All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
~ Nadeem Aslam
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
~ Nadia Boulanger
Nothing is better than music... it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.
~ Nadia Boulanger
Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.
~ Nadia Giosia
The creative act is not pure.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Music has no limits of a life-span.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Loving my Poet as I do, though, I try hard to understand what a poet is. The first clue lies in the fact that my Poet—every poet—is an insomniac. My own reads or wanders about our apartment for the best part of most nights. She told me she often feels she would give up every poem she's ever written for one good night's sleep.
~ Unknown
Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
~ Nafisa Joseph
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
So we're going to keep getting mega-hits like this?" Tomas's dark brown eyes sparkled as they landed on Sienna's down-bent head. "Not that I don't appreciate it, sugar, but it did make me 'hyper,' according to my mother.
~ Nalini Singh
Live your life, Sahara. Live it as big and with as much color as you can stand to bear. Don't let anyone or anything - the family, Silence, the wight of your ability, even my need to keep you close - confine you again.
~ Nalini Singh
I need you," he said to her, this woman who'd fought for her own right to live her life free of limits, "to build me some remote detonation devices." Amazing brown eyes shot with blue peering into his as she pressed her nose to his. "You always say the most romantic things.
~ Nalini Singh
In a world of those who follow the rules without deviation those who innovate even in the shadows, will rule. Never be a carbon copy." -Ena
~ Nalini Singh
No bear has ever let a lack of knowledge or skill stop them from dancing.
~ Nalini Singh
In a world of those who follow the rules without deviation," Ena had added, "those who innovate even in the shadows, will rule. Never be a carbon copy.
~ Nalini Singh
Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.
~ Nalo Hopkinson
So there's a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn't about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are. (interview)
~ Nalo Hopkinson
The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story
~ Nalo Hopkinson
I bet there are still many openings and loopholes in art history ... which are being overlooked right now by millions of young people who complain that everything has already been done, so that they cannot do new breakthroughs. However, the history of the world says that we don't win the games, but we change the rules of the games.
~ Nam June Paik
My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
~ Nana Mouskouri