Quotes About Creativity

Creative artists have great passion.

hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot

One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to stuff you would never have otherwise found out about.

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea."

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.

Walt Disney was my great hero.

I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films.

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.