Quotes about Creativity
Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"
— John Maxwell
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.
— John Guare
I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.
— John Lennon
I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.
— John Piper
I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In my work and what I do, I am Queen of the Universe every day!
— Lady Gaga
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."
— Madeleine L'Engle
the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.
— Marina Abramovic
If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.
— Moby
I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.
— Paulo Coelho
Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
— Oprah Winfrey