Quotes about Creativity
I have learnt not to ignore instincts. While making a film, when your gut feels that you are going wrong, please take that seriously.
- Zoya Akhtar
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
- Milan Kundera
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
- Duke Ellington
All artist of some measure contemplative.
- Evelyn Underhill
Our creativity, our inner sense of right and wrong, our ability to love and to reason—all bear witness to the fact that God created us in His image. The Bible says God "has not left himself without testimony" [Acts 14:17 NIV].
- Billy Graham
The study of art that does not result in making the strong less willing to suppress the weak means little.
- Booker T. Washington
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
- Helen Keller
Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.
- Dolly Parton
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
- Dolly Parton
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
- Paulo Coelho
Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.
- Lauren Kate
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
- Margaret Atwood