Quotes about Creativity
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
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
I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
— Julian Casablancas
On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.
— Kevin Hart
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
— Napoleon Hill
Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
— Ann Voskamp
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
— Steven Pressfield
Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
— Steven Pressfield