Quotes About Creativity

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Many great ideas need refreshment and deeper analysis. "Freedom," for example, is a great idea but it has become a cliché.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.

At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.

Being known for musicals is a great thing.