Quotes About Creativity

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

I have a great office.

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

Write while the heat is in you.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.