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Creativity Quotes
"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."
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"Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity."
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"Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas."
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"I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy."
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"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
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"I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine."
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"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
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"Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either."
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"I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule."
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"Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof."
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"Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers."
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"You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else."
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"What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be."
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"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."
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"Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter."
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"I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue."
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"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."
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"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly."
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"Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."
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"I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives."
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"Let your imagination takes you to where you wish to be."
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"As an author, I want to write what I'm inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I'm writing."
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"When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough."
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"I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments."
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"Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."
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"You have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing."
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"Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour."
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"When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares!"
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"I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together."
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"While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another."
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"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
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"Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all."
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"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."
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"We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not."
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"This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy."
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"Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away."
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"What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?"
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"Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process."
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"I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc."
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"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."
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"There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it won't reflect the storyteller's true beliefs, it will only reflect what he BELIEVES he believes, or what he thinks he should believe or what he's been persuaded of. But when you write without deliberately expressing moral teachings, the morals that show up are the ones you actually live by. The beliefs that you don't even think to question, that you don't even notice-- those will show up. And that tells much more truth about what you believe than your deliberate moral machinations."
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"The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory."
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"I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block."
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"Well it's good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody'll say, 'why don't you come over for dinner?' and I can just say, 'Car won't make it.' I don't have to tell them that time is scarcer than young pussy around here, and I don't mean time to write POETRY. I mean time to lay in bed, alone, and stare up at the ceiling and not think at all, not at all, not at all."
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"So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas."
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"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas."
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"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
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