Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Creativity Quotes
CreativityEntrepreneurshipFocusLeadershipPhilanthropy Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
CreativityFilmmakingPassionStorytellingVisual Arts I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.
CreativityFocusHumorPerseveranceResilience I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
ArtCreativityExpressionLiteratureSound I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
CreativityDedicationPreparationWork Ethic I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
CreativityHappinessIdentitySelf-ExpressionWell-being Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
CreativityDisciplineFocusRoutine When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.
CreativityExpressionFreedomInnovationRebellion I'm breaking so many rules every single day, and I think that's where you make good music.
ArtCreativityInnovationTechnologyTradition I want to see if I can keep the integrity of my music but also allow myself to try out a bit of what modern technology allows.
Childhood JoyCreativityFreedom of ExpressionPerformanceSpontaneity I went to a concert once when I was a little kid and ran up onstage, started dancing, started saying anything that came to my head. I was like a little vaudevillian.
CollaborationCreativityLanguagePracticality Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
ArtistryCreativityInnovationNostalgiaPhotography I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
CreativityDiscoveryFreedomInnovationUnconventionality One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
ArtCreativityMediumsNostalgiaTechnology Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
CommunityCreativityHobbiesLifestyleReputation Yeah, the Mac Life... it's about sipping some tea, getting together with the knitting circle. You know I like origami, right? That's how you get to be notorious.
ArtCollaborationCreativityPassionPlayfulness I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
CreativityGoalsImpactMotivationSuccess As you reach more people, there is a potential to make a living with what you are creating, and that's the goal.
CreativityEditingLiterary TechniquesVoice in LiteratureWriting Process I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.
AchievementCreativityFreedomInnovationPersistence The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody thought you could actually get to the end and stop doing a comic that people were still buying just because you'd finished.
CreativityHumilityIdentityIntelligenceSelf-Perception We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'
CollaborationCreativityGeniusInnovationTeamwork The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.
CourageCreativityGoodnessLoyaltyTruth You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
ArtistryCreativityFilm-makingImpactInnovation Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.
Artistic GrowthAuthenticityCreativitySelf-ExpressionSource of Inspiration Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
CreativityLearningMusicPassionYouth Music's been a huge passion of mine since I was really young. I started playing guitar when I was thirteen.
ChangeCreativityInnovationMusicRebellion I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
