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Quotes About Creativity

If you hear a different drummer, don't march—dance!
~ Carolyn V. Hamilton
It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic.
~ Terry Pratchett
The last time I checked, I didn't have any special talent, thought Kara.Can I paint a demon to death?Drown it in some gouache?
~ Kim Richardson, Marked
Have you ever been at a point that you don't know what to say? But yet you came up with this crazy idea to type this.
~ Eric Mayes
Writing is like talking to yourself, just in a way that makes it look like you're not crazy!
~ Mary Kate
Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they're all the same.
~ Tom Gething from "Sabotage"
Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.
~ R.M. ArceJaeger
Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.
~ Seanan McGuire, Indexing
They are not grey roots! This is my new fifty shades of grey OMBRE hairstyle!
~ Tanya Masse
How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and, ' 'the, ' and 'I, ' and 'it, ' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.
~ Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.
~ Jens Lekman
Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.
~ Arlo Guthrie
In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.
~ Joe Sabia
But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.
~ Russell Banks
I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.
~ Gus Van Sant
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
~ Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
~ Albert Einstein
Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.
~ Maria Montessori
The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.
~ Constantin Stanislavski
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.
~ Jane Jacobs
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.
~ Mae Jemison
We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.
~ Misha Collins
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
~ bell hooks