Quotes About Creativity

I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

The best things in life are crazy.

I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.

I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

None but blockheads copy each other.

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.