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Quotes About Creativity

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.
~ Willie Nelson
If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'
~ Trey Parker
It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.
~ Zack Snyder
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
~ Sarah McLachlan
I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.
~ Steve Madden
Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.
~ Arthur Wesley Dow
Predictability and great design are not friends.
~ Fred Brooks
There are many great minds on earth and not all are human.
~ Anthony Douglas
I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.
~ Noel Gallagher
I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
~ Raine Maida
The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.
~ David McCullough
It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.
~ Glenn Ligon
Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.
~ Bill Reid
Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.
~ Jonathan Ive
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.
~ John Farrar
It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.
~ Chloe Sevigny
Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.
~ Cary Fukunaga
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
~ Seth Godin
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
~ T. S. Eliot
The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
~ Oscar Wilde
This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!
~ Ray Davies
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
~ Walter Scott
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
~ Samuel George Morton
The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.
~ Andrew Loog Oldham