Quotes about Creativity
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
— John Updike
I benefit from a change of scenery; it's always inspiring.
— Kurt Vile
For me, my music is part of me, and which is why it seems second nature, and my compositions are instinctive.
— Ilaiyaraaja
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