Quotes about Creativity
You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
- Erwin McManus
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.
- Francis Schaeffer
Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that's the job I do.
- Walt Disney
Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
- Erica Jong
You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?
- Erwin McManus
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
- John Malkovich
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.
- Seth Godin
In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).
- Albert Einstein
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
- Anne Lamott
A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.
- Erwin McManus
Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.
- Jack Kerouac