Quotes About Creativity

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.

I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

I hope I inspire children to make films.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

I'm thinking about doing dusty colors - we definitely are doing as much color as we can. It seems that fashion is back on track with color - I hope. It's been very black for awhile.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.