Quotes about Creativity
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
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
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
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