Quotes About Creativity

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.

When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

I think if anyone looks at the history of So Solid, you'll see that we've never stuck to one sound. We've always created from other genres, from R&B, hip-hop, bashment, jungle.

Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home