Quotes about Creativity
Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.
— John Updike
Whatever men make, she says, what they felt when they made it is there...Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
— John Updike
I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles, if I had to. The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.
— John Updike
Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.
— John Updike
Make each day your masterpiece.
— John Wooden
Make each day a masterpiece.
— John Wooden
Make Every Day Your Masterpiece!
— John Wooden
He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.
— Khalil Gibran
I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.
— Richard O'Brien
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
— Stephen Malkmus
If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.
— George Lucas
Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
— Steven Pressfield