Quotes about Creativity
Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
— Ernest Hemingway
Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.
— James Arthur
Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.
— Seth Godin
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
— Alice Hoffman
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.
— Ernest Hemingway
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
— George Bernard Shaw
Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.
— Gia Coppola
So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others.
— Lee Ann Womack
A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements.
— Ezra Furman
I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
— Julian Casablancas
Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
— Flume