Quotes about Creativity
What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
- Marina Abramovic
Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.
- Phillips Brooks
I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.
- Clay Aiken
Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
- Erica Jong
Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
- Ernest Hemingway
Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.
- James Arthur
Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.
- Seth Godin
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
- Alice Hoffman
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.
- Ernest Hemingway