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Quotes About Creativity

Inventors make something out of anything, but God makes something out of nothing. Elohim needs no raw materials.
~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8, 000 movies.
~ Trieste Kelly Dunn
The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails
~ James Joyce
If I had any hand in it at all there's a chance that it might be beautiful, but it simply cannot not be majestic.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.
~ Ron Brackin
Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
~ Massimo Vignelli
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.
~ Constantin Stanislavski
Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.
~ Hugh Newell Jacobsen
I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
~ Jimmy Page
If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
~ Linus Pauling
Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
~ Henri Matisse
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
~ Jimi Hendrix
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
~ Chuck Grassley
I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
~ Helmut Newton
For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.
~ Tori Amos
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
~ Cole Porter
Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
~ Mos Def
There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop
~ Tyra Banks
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
~ Alexander Calder
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
~ Grant Wood
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
~ Mary Schmich
All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.
~ Norman Maclean
A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.
~ Habib Umar bin Hafiz