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Creativity Quotes
"When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes."
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"Unwritten words grow out of silence."
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"The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true."
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"I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that."
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"There is a skill to learning. It is all about what is and what is not. While Science is knowing what is, Art is creating what is not."
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"It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman."
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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 first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book."
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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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"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
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"After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once."
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"What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches."
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"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
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"The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd."
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"Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation."
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"The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting."
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"But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is."
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"In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself."
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"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
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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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"There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas."
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"Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution."
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"You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is."
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"We as Republicans understand that we have got to protect these... entitlement programs - these entitlement programs for our seniors today. And we have to sit down and have a discussion. We need more ideas on the table."
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"Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country."
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"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."
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"I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there."
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"I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed."
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"Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today."
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"A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences."
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"It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another."
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"But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process."
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"The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery."
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"So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken."
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"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it."
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"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."
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"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"
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"Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off."
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"New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!"
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"Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie 'Legally Blonde' and I was like, 'cool, that's something I want to do."
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"I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect."
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"Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it."
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"Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."
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"It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea."
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"This is the marketplace of political ideas. This is how America operates. It's a free market. It's free-wheeling. From the outside, it looks unpredictable. There's a circus-like free market."
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"What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion."
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"In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea."
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