Quotes about Creativity
Don't die with your music still inside.
- Wayne Dyer
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
- Zig Ziglar
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
- Coco Chanel
There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
- Pablo Picasso
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
- William Faulkner
The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
- William Faulkner
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
- William Faulkner
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
- William Faulkner
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
- William Hazlitt
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- William James