Creativity Quotes

"If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling."

- Vince Gilligan

"Great artists steal’ is … about finding inspiration in the work of others, then using it as a starting point for original creative output."

- Adam J. Kurtz

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."

- Stephen Sondheim

"All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long."

- Steven Spielberg

"Boredom is a lack of crazy. It’s a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you’re bored, blame yourself."

- Katelyn S. Irons

"You do this because you like it, you think what you’re making is beautiful. And if you think it’s beautiful, maybe they think it’s beautiful."

- Lou Reed

"On my own I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, I’ll create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted."

- Ava DuVernay

"Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life."

- William Shatner

"One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way."

- Anthony Bourdain

"You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better."

- Erin Morgenstern

"I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting."

- Andy Rooney

"The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak."

- Jean-Georges Vongerichten

"One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another."

- Yotam Ottolenghi

"Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning."

- B. B. King

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theater."

- Gail Godwin

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

"If a child is acting disruptive within the school system, don’t be too quick to assume there is something wrong with her. She simply may be doing her best to say that the system is not large enough to house the fullness of her creative spirit."

- Vince Gowmon

"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible."

- Balthus

"Rules and models destroy genius and art."

- William Hazlitt

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

- Walt Whitman

"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."

- Lewis Mumford

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

- Ansel Adams

"The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class."

- Louis Dudek

"I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies."

- Le Corbusier

"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."

- Charles Dudley Warner

"To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing."

- Philip Guston

"Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love."

- Alfred Sisley

"Art must take reality by surprise."

- Francoise Sagan

"A picture is worth a thousand words."