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Creativity Quotes
"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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"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
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"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."
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"I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead."
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"In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. If creation had been left up to me, I'm sure I wouldn't have had the imagination or courage to do more than shape a single, reasonably sized atom, smooth as a snowball, and let it go at that."
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"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
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"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."
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"I Taught myself how to Write lyrics ,compose ,sing ,arrange music ,mix and mastering my music and producing it and selling it worldwide , Promoting it Too and making my music videos as well . All because they wanted to abuse me when I first started."
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"Don't die with your music still in you, play your music unencumbered. Should your guitar remain unstrung?"
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"I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity."
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"Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor."
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"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."
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"Imaginative mind is the seed of every dream and every vision. It always starts from our minds before the manifestation."
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"When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce."
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"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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"The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge."
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"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."
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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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"The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first."
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"We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying."
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"Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear."
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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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"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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"Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place."
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"In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work."
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"We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas."
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"At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart."
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"That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times."
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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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"Word-Power'Being stuck in my room,I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now."
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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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"The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown."
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"An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation."
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"A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters."
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"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas."
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"When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation."
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"A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem."
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"If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!"
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"He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle."
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"Free verse is like free love, it is a contradiction in terms."
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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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"I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea."
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"Talent is divinely gifted, and never to be cheaply exchanged for the sake of trinkets and fame."
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"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
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"I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research."
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"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."
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"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket."
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