Quotes about Creativity

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

I felt free this time, knowing I had a job and that I wasn't going to be graded. I could simply experiment and create. The thought occurred to me that if I always lived under the certainty of God's provision instead of the certainty of Lexi's worry, I might always feel this free.

Amidst your Ardor for Greek and Latin I hope you will not forget your mother Tongue. Read Somewhat in the English Poets every day. . . . You will never be alone, with a Poet in your Poket. You will never have an idle Hour.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.