Quotes About Creativity

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.

Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance.

Where there is no hope, we must invent it.

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

I hope people can see us SHINee, who are doing what we can do now, as we are.

I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take.

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.