Quotes About Creativity

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

I like to build things, I like to do things. I am having a lot of fun .

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.

Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

People dance at any age.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.