Quotes About Creativity

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

I listen to my records and I think, 'Wow, these are really great appetizers. I haven't even considered what I'm going to order for the full entree meal yet.'

When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.