Quotes About Creativity

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

I don't have a philosophy. I have a camera.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Socrates should have written comics.

Don't write to sell, write to tell.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist's most profound life experiences.

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.