Quotes About Creativity

The chief enemy of creativity at work is not time. It is fear.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

Using a double bass drum in rock came about as a way to emulate what John Bonham of Led Zeppelin managed to do with one bass drum. His foot was so fast that it took most drummers two kick drums and both feet to mimic it.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

I'd like to hear your opinion on this piece of Beethoven. And remember, it is not Beethoven who is being examined here.

people can die of mere imagination - Geffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

We're all children of Kubrick, aren't we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn't done?

Spiritual self-affirmation occurs in every moment in which man lives creatively in the various spheres of meaning.

El sistema de las escuelas de arte constituyó la base del empuje que el Reino Unido tendría en el futuro en el mundo del arte, la publicidad, el sector editorial, el cine y la moda.

David Bowie had grasped a fundamental truth: before you can be a genius, you have to seem like a genius.

One evening Bowie vented his frustration, says Pitt, by telling him, "I'm going to write some Top Ten rubbish," then proceeded to write a song that was neither. "Let Me Sleep Beside You" would be his first collaboration with Tony Visconti, the producer with whom he's most associated; the finest song Bowie had written to that point, it also became the cause of his biggest artistic setback.

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language.

For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends on the unexpected rather than the expected, depends on what we do not know, and because we do not know it, than what we know.