Quotes about Creativity
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
— Oscar Wilde
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
— Seth Godin
Great work is always shunned at first.
— Seth Godin
It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.
— Seth Godin
Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.
— Stephen Malkmus
The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers.
— Steven Pressfield
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.
— Steven Pressfield
Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.
— Tina Fey
Sometimes, you can feel or see how a movie can... how you can do it. Sometimes it's just like seeing, "Can that work? Will people buy that? Can we do that?" And all those checkmarks.
— Tina Fey
If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
— Washington Allston
Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
— John Malkovich