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Creativity Quotes
"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."
444
"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it."
388
"Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?"
220
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
210
"Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude."
193
"I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old."
183
"It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye."
182
"Every writer has to find their own way into writing."
178
"Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe."
178
"I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea."
177
"He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too."
174
"There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking."
169
"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."
168
"And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified."
166
"You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be."
164
"Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever."
161
"And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?"
161
"Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity."
160
"A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage."
159
"I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties."
152
"The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas."
152
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
149
"There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas."
147
"Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!"
145
"As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart."
138
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
129
"Creativity is just connecting things."
126
"A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences."
120
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
119
"I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it."
108
"If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate."
102
"I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here."
96
"Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless."
94
"It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it."
93
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air."
89
"There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt."
89
"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."
88
"The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market."
86
"Painters--and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!"
86
"The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion."
85
"Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life."
85
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers."
84
"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
84
"A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with."
83
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."
83
"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster."
83
"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."
82
"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on."
79
"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
79
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