Quotes About Creativity

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.

I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

My personality is very good for nurturing. I'm very empathetic to my artists. You speak to anyone who's worked with me and they'll say, "Oh yeah, Steve's great. He doesn't have the ego."

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.