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Quotes About Creativity

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
~ Brian Eno
I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."
~ Chuck D
In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.
~ Mason Cooley
Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
~ Shakira
I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.
~ Frederic Chopin
Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
~ Albert Camus
Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.
~ Ani DiFranco
Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.
~ Susan Sontag
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
~ George Henry Lewes
When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.
~ Andy Daly
The morality of art is in its very beauty.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.
~ Ivan Tverdovsky
Mys philosophy toward art is true to my time, true to my dream, and true to myself.
~ Michael Chow
I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.
~ Lou Reed
every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.
~ Rebecca West
With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.
~ Robert Bringhurst
One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.
~ Jonathan Frakes
One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.
~ Marc Webb
There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.
~ Jamie Lidell
I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.
~ Vince Gilligan
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.
~ Terry Pratchett
Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
~ Paul Gauguin
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
~ Fernando Pessoa