Quotes About Creativity

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

I mean, I'm an artist by nature, no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.

Nobody ever feels like they've arrived. That's just the nature of being a creative type of person. You always feel like you can get better or reach more people.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.