Quotes about Creativity

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.

He has painted many roses for me. My walls are covered with Howard originals.

Basically, life isn't just about eating and partying - we need to figure out unique ways in which we can add to our curiosity levels, besides satisfying the wanderer in us.

I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject.

My wardrobe reflects my long-standing belief that great style lives in the details.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

For a novelist, being 'too emotional' is often a good thing. The only thing you have to sell is your emotional experiences.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.