Quotes about Creativity
The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.
- Henri Matisse
Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
- Oscar Wilde
My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.
- Marc Chagall
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
- GK Chesterton
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.
- Walt Disney
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
- George Bernard Shaw
Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
- Bill Gates
Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.
- David Ogilvy
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
- Pablo Picasso
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
- Oscar Wilde
Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
- Albert Camus