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Quotes About Creativity

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
~ Michael Arndt
I know I always say my occupation is not dancing, but dancing is in my heart, dancing makes me feel good.
~ Lil' Kim
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
~ Cai Guo-Qiang
Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
~ Marc Newson
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.
~ Madame de Stael
One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.
~ Denzel Washington
What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood
~ Martin Kippenberger
I haven't actually seen a Lady Gaga tour, but I do think she's very good.
~ Kate Bush
I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.
~ Milla Jovovich
How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one
~ John Creasey
It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes
~ Sara Bareilles
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
~ John Ruskin
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
~ Alain de Botton
In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.
~ Max Bemis
Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.
~ Mark Rydell
We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.
~ Walt Disney
A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
~ Allan Sherman
In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.
~ William Saroyan
One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.
~ Andy Stanley
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
~ Gene Hackman
I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write
~ Anne McCaffrey
Good design can't fix broken business models.
~ Jeffrey Veen
I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.
~ Julian Schnabel
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
~ Frank Gehry