Quotes About Creativity

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

Every good painter paints what he is.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

The good ideas will survive.

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.

Bad weather makes for good photography.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.