Quotes About Creativity

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

You don't need a business plan. You don't need to have an MBA. All you need is a great idea. Anything is possible and you can accomplish it.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

When I was starting as an anime director I wanted to be known for great things. I never wanted to be known for some overblown toy commercial.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

All truly great art is propaganda.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Great art changes you.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.