Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

Talent works, genius creates.

I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I'm interested in creating new work.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

I'm a creator at heart.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Simply, the majority of the most interesting filmmakers are the ones confronted with difficult situations. Their creativity blows a hole in the wall and lets in the light.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Everyone is super creative in the family.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.