Arthur Phillips Quotes

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

Sometimes I'll go without writing for a while and I'll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So I'll sit down and a dozen songs will pop out. It's fun.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, "Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this." I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.