Quotes About Creativity

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

My balls feel like a pair of maracas.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

The most important thing about creativity is that you honor your creativity and you don't ever ignore it or go against what that creative image is telling you.

I just don't think it honors God to create mediocre art.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

It's an honor to paint cats.

It's always an honor and a scary experience to sing new music.

as if it were a point of honor—which, indeed, a point of art often is.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

Art is the highest form of hope.