Quotes About Creativity

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

It's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them.

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.

And with it all, good design's not about what medium you're working in, it's about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start."

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

That's the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.