Quotes about Creativity
Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.
— Jay Parini
There are people out there who don't see value in intellectual property, and so they're always going to have a problem if there are lawsuits involving intellectual property.
— Paul Allen
It's a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.
— Jason Fried
I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency
— Leo Burnett
Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.
— Marianne Williamson
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
— Michelangelo
The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
— Seth Godin
No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting.
— Steven Pressfield
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
— Steven Pressfield
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.
— Toni Morrison
Never judge a work of art by its defects.
— Washington Allston