Quotes about Creativity
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
— Elie Wiesel
Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.
— Mark Batterson
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.
— Amos Oz
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
— Abraham Lincoln
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
— William Saroyan
Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.
— William Temple
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
— William Wordsworth
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
— William Wordsworth
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
— William Wordsworth
Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.
— William Wordsworth
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
— David Ogilvy
Committees can criticize, but they cannot create.
— David Ogilvy