Quotes About Creativity

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

Great minds think for themselves.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.