Creativity Quotes

"I always say that I don’t believe I’m a chef. I try to be a storyteller."

- Jose Andres

"Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors – it’s how you combine them that sets you apart."

- Wolfgang Puck

"I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation."

- Madam Benoit

"Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements."

- Marcel Boulestin

"The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living."

- Dione Lucas

"Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained."

- Maurice de Vlaminck

"Cooking is multisensory. It’s made for the eyes, the mouth, the nose, the ear, and the soul. No other art is as complex."

- Pierre Gagnaire

"A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe."

- Thomas Keller

"Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors—it’s how you combine them that sets you apart."

- Wolfgang Puck

"Cooking well, with love, is an art."

- Asha Bhosle

"And that is how the Minions found their new boss! He was cunning! He was evil! He was perfect! He was... despicable!"

- Narrator

"The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself."

- Deepak Chopra

"Pam and I would sometimes hum the same high-pitched note and try to get Dwight to make an appointment with an ear doctor. And, uh, Pam called it… pretendinitis."

- Jim Halpert

"Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way, like an improv conversation....an improversation."

- Michael Scott

"If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk."

- Oscar Wilde

"As Black women, we’re always given these seemingly devastating experiences—experiences that could absolutely break us. But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. What we do as Black women is take the worst situations and create from that point."

- Viola Davis

"I got a hot sauce in my bag, swag. Yonce all on his mouth like liquor. Surfboard."

- Beyoncé

"Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived…Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation… Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here."

- Anne Lamott

"Your life is already artful- waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art."

- Toni Morrison

"Don’t be the guy who shows up at the potluck with just a fork."

- Dave Liniger

"Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love."

- Nate Berkus

"“By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.”"

- Edwin Elliot

"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."

- Friedrich Schiller

"Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances."

- Sanford Meisner

"Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place."

- Martha Graham

"You should feel a flow of joy because you are alive. Your body will feel full of life. That is what you must give from the stage. Your life. No less. That is art: to give all you have."

- Anton Chekhov

"Everyone has literature inside of them."

- Anna Deavere Smith

"Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression."

- Dorothy Fields

"Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage."

- Edward Albee

"If there’s a story that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it."

- Toni Morrison