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Quotes About Creativity

What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.
~ Steven Tyler
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
~ Thom Yorke
In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.
~ Wendy Liebman
I would never advise shooing away a good idea.
~ Phoebe Stone, Romeo Blue
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
~ Natalie Massenet
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
~ P. J. Harvey
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
~ Anthony Minghella
The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.
~ Olivier Theyskens
I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.
~ Marlon Wayans
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.
~ Michael Cera
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.
~ Eric Bana
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.
~ Christopher Hampton
I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.
~ Dolly Parton
All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Design isn't risky - change is. Good design mitigates that risk.
~ Jeffrey Veen
Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.
~ Paul Simon
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.
~ Vanna Bonta
Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.
~ Aaron Shepard
Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.
~ Adam Rich
There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.
~ Adele