When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

That is Buddha's meaning of nirvana: to be free from life and death, to be free from desire. The moment you are free from…

— Anonymous

“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion,…

— Anonymous

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those…

— Eric Maisel

“Never apologize for creating happiness,”

— Debora Geary

“Creation Here is an exercise that will assist you in your Deliberate Creating: Take three separate pieces of paper, and at the top of…

— Esther Hicks

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu…

— Orson Scott Card

Creating anything is hard.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

— David Copperfield

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

— Arthur Peacocke

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.

— Robert Fritz

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

— Adam Braun

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

— David Cronenberg