Creativity Quotes

"After a full belly all is poetry."

- Frank McCourt

"Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults."

- Mitch Hedberg

"Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before."

- Marilyn vos Savant

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."

- John Lennon

"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."

- John Lennon

"Art is only a way of expressing pain."

- John Lennon

"My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."

- John Lennon

"“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”"

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."

- Rudyard Kipling

"Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was."

- The Weeknd

"I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange."

- Amanda Harlech

"“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”"

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

""April is a dancer, showcasing the delicate choreography of rebirth.""

- Emma Bleker

"Creativity comes from a place of being honest and unapologetic."

- SZA

"I’m really just using myself as the canvas to paint my own truth."

- SZA

"The best art is not about perfection, it’s about expression."

- SZA

"Music is my therapy. I need to create to stay sane."

- SZA

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns to look at things differently."

- SZA

"Don’t overthink. Create freely and let it flow."

- SZA

"Being creative means constantly evolving and daring to do the unexpected."

- SZA

"You don’t make art out of good intentions. You make it out of hard feelings."

- SZA

"To be creative, you must lose the fear of being wrong."

- SZA

""April is a storyteller, painting landscapes with vibrant hues of green and pink.""

- Morgan Harper Nichols

""Flowers don't tell, they show.""

- Stephanie Skeem

"Epilepsy can, in some circumstances, be enabling - not just disabling - through the stimulation and enhancement of artistic expression."

- Jim Chambliss

"Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

- Albert Szent-Györgyi

"Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way."

- Tom Freston

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."

- Danny Kaye

"It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails."

- Romain Rolland

"My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain."

- Justin Cronin