Creativity Quotes

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

To end poverty, to extirpate prejudice, to free a tormented conscience, to make a tomorrow of justice, fair play, and creativity-all these are worthy of the American ideal.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it.

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

It's difficult because we live in a world that doesn't really respect the creative and intellectual contributions of women. It's more like 'Oh, you're so cute. Be quiet. Shhh, don't talk too much.

I think if you write from your own gut, you'll come up with something interesting, whereas if you sit around guessing what people want, you end up with the kind of same schlock that everybody else has got.

I do other projects-I'm building an outdoor model-train layout, which has been a lot of fun. It just takes me away into another world. There's no pressure to it. I have a buddy who helps me build it. We spend days and days and days and weeks and months on these. If you're stuck, you've got to get out of it. You've got to get way out of it.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves.

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

The Seed Sounds Weekender is a vital reminder that music doesn't start in boardrooms or big arenas; it starts in back rooms, pubs, basements, and independent spaces run on love, grit, and belief in something bigger.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

I don't want to keep playing the same formula over and over again, otherwise you just go insane. I don't want to become stale. I want to be creative.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.