Quotes about Creativity
I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.
— Steven Spielberg
I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
— Vincent Van Gogh
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
— CS Lewis
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
— Oscar Wilde
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
— John Updike
What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
— Marina Abramovic
Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.
— Phillips Brooks
I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.
— Clay Aiken
Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
— Erica Jong