Quotes About Creativity

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.

Great French design is often about unexpected touches.

You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'

From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.