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Quotes About Creativity

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
~ John Lennon
Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
~ Neil Gaiman
Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.
~ Fred Armisen
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
~ Helen Keller
The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.
~ Natasha Bedingfield
There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.
~ Kanye West
Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.
~ Dick Costolo
Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.
~ Neil Gaiman
The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.
~ Neil Gaiman
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
~ Louis Kahn
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
~ Antoni Gaudi
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
~ Aristotle
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
~ Dieter Rams
A great artist has to be ready to fail.
~ Marina Abramovic
Great design is serious, not solemn
~ Paula Scher
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
~ Robert Morgan
Great art picks up where nature ends.
~ Marc Chagall
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
All great art is born of the metropolis.
~ Ezra Pound
Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.
~ Holger Czukay
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.
~ Loren Eiseley
Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.
~ Will Champion
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
~ W. Somerset Maugham