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Creativity Quotes
"I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know."
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"When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it."
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"Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else."
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"The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal."
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"One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
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"If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail."
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"A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations."
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"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."
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"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."
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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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"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool, it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
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"Have the vision to create something wonderful, something that has true value forever."
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"A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem."
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"The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original."
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"The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real."
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"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
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"The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations."
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"Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original."
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"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
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"An original is worth more than a copy."
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"In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects."
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"Walking's a great way to create. The ideas seem to fall from the sky sometimes, and the fresh air is great too."
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"Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions."
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"Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed."
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"Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously."
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"I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that."
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"The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like."
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"The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind."
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"Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession."
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"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more."
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"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."
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"We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world."
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"Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him."
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"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."
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"The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story."
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"Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down."
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"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it."
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"But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation."
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"After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures."
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"The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead."
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"To create is to live twice."
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"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."
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"Always let your heart sing, no musical talent needed."
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"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."
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"When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist."
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"I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut."
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"Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
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