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Quotes About Creativity

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
~ Harriet Martineau
I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like.
~ Heather O'Rourke
I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.
~ Andy Biersack
The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.
~ Jan Brett
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
~ Charles Ives
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
~ Raymond Carver
If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.
~ David E. Kelley
Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.
~ J. K. Rowling
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.
~ Gelett Burgess
I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?
~ Valentino Garavani
I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].
~ Keanu Reeves
Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.
~ Nikola Tesla
Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.
~ John French Sloan
You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.
~ John Hurt
Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf.
~ Kevin Shields
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The 'machine-gun' approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
~ Ansel Adams
I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.
~ Vilmos Zsigmond
Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.
~ James Salter
I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.
~ Brad Bird
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.
~ Neil Gaiman
I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.
~ Cesar Pelli