Quotes About Creativity

Hard is the stone but harder still, the delicate performing will which guided by a dream alone subdues and molds the hardest stone....

There's an electrical thing about movies.

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair. (ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!)

No greater satisfaction exists now than a paragraph well written in honor of something you value.

The art of what we might call, loosely, cartoons…[has been] as source of pleasure which has remained and sustained me.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and thinking.

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Aunque ellos mismos lo ignoren, ningún creador escribe para los otros, ni para sí mismo, ni mucho menos para satisfacer un anhelo de creación, sino porque no puede dejar de escribir.

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

Ma non si impara a fare belle fotografie soltanto con una macchina fotografica. La capacità si acquisisce coltivando la propria sensibilità.

Riuscire? In quale momento si può avere la pretesa di riuscire? Non cerchiamo di riuscire, cerchiamo di vivere intensamente. Riuscire non è lo scopo di un fotografo. La fotografia è una passione di cui si è fatto un mestiere.

Le mie più belle fotografie sono nate spontaneamente da una semplice volontà di viverle. In un secondo tempo mi sono organizzato per fotografarle.

Prendere le distanze dal proprio lavoro, sia nello scatto che durante la selezione, è un imperativo, seppur inumano!

La bellezza della fotografia è andare alla ricerca di immagini che non esistono ancora e dare loro un senso.