Quotes About Creativity

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.