Quotes About Creativity

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.