Quotes about Creativity
Technology alone is not enough.
- Steve Jobs
The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.
- Steve Jobs
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
- Martha Graham
...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.
- Albert Einstein
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
- Henri Matisse
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.
- Julian Casablancas
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
- Victor Hugo
A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.
- Tony Hale
I am the best and sharpest critic of my own work. I know myself what is and what is not well written. Anyone who doesn't write doesn't know how wonderful it is.
- Anne Frank
When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived!
- Anne Frank
I know that I can write, a couple of my stories are good, my descriptions of the 'Secret Annex' are humorous, there's a lot in my diary that speaks, but whether I have real talent remains to be seen.
- Anne Frank