Quotes about Creativity

I wrote poems. That is my work. I am convinced... I believe that what I wrote will be useful to people not only now but in future generations.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Every weekday morning, I picture my first paragraph while I hike with my dog Milo near Mulholland Drive, looking out over the San Fernando Valley. I edit the paragraph, then memorize it, so that when I get back home and sit down at my computer, the blank screen's tyranny lasts only a second or two. A brief reign!

I'm not against gifts that entertain, but I really believe that some of the most valuable gifts that we can give are the things that help us to develop a skill and be entertaining.

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.

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.

I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.