Quotes About Creativity

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.

Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

That smile on Stive Jobs face... My impersonation came from being a fan.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.