Quotes About Creativity

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Good design is good business.

There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

Any room where you feel a good vibe is a good place to write.

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

Consistency is the death of good acting.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that. It's about leaving the bad vibes and going to where the good vibes are.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

If I'd only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn't have had to do all the thousands of others.