Quotes about Creativity
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
- John Donne
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
- Marianne Williamson
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
- John Keats
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
- CS Lewis
She painted because she loved to paint. She never exhibited. She had no career, no ambitions for her work except that it be good, and she didn't care what we thought of it.
- Michael Ignatieff
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
- Erica Jong
When Sinatra was alive and singing, he was constantly changing orchestrators from one album to the next because he said he didn't want every record to sound like every other record.
- Frank Sinatra Jr.
I have known in my heart since I was a little girl that music was a major part of my life and always would be, but seeing others respond to the words I sing amazes me.
- Lauren Daigle
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
- Pablo Picasso
Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.
- Stephen Malkmus
I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.
- Bo Burnham
I didn't have any brothers or sisters, so I did a lot of stuff where I entertained myself playing games, reading a lot, a lot of fantasy novel stuff.
- Bill Bailey