Quotes About Creativity

Too much light inhibits the activity of the brain", Carrel said. "Surely you've noticed that the world's great civilizations have formed far above the equator, where there is much less direct sunlight than in tropical regions".

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

There are three rules for writing the novel," said W. Somerset Maugham. "Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction.

God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself.

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

Yellow is capable of charming God.

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.

God gives everyone the same amount of talent. It's just up to you to korek (dig).