Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Romans

I think it helped my creativity to be in a town that didn't have that influence. It helped the productivity to be in a place where there wasn't much structure. You had to make it happen for yourself.

Roger Enrico

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

William McDonough

We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?

William Shatner

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

Richard Florida

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

Richard Florida

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

Robert Delaunay

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Trevor Nunn

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

Rod McKuen

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.

John C. Reilly

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Brooke Shields

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Dodie Smith

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

Angelique Kidjo

Don't let misery bring you down.

Victor Hugo

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Swami Vivekananda

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

Anne Stevenson

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Kurt Koeppen

Nick performed on a canvas in the sky.

Stephen Gaghan

I could have concentrated on George Clooney's character, ... I could have had him in every scene and told the entire story from his point of view. That certainly would have made my life a lot easier over the last several years. But the canvas was too large. These days, if you make a movie about East and West and turn it into a simple piece of disposable entertainment, that seems to me criminal.

Robert Rauschenberg

A canvas is never empty.

Tom Yawkey

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Linda Lavin

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.

Geoff Johns

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial.

Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.