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Creativity Quotes
"If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards."
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"Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey and play on."
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"At its most basic we are only discussing a learned skill, but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create things far beyond our expectations? We are talking about tools and carpentry, about words and style...but as we move along, you'd do well to remember that we are also talking about magic."
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"Don't make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don't make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.Maybe they will notice how hard you worked, and maybe they won't - and if they don't notice, I know it's frustrating. But, ultimately, that doesn't change anything - because your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but to the gift itself."
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"There's plenty of room in this vehicle for all of us, so make yourself at home, but understand this: Creativity and I are the only ones who will be making any decisions along the way. I recognize and respect that you are part of this family, and so I will never exclude you from our activities, but still-your suggestions will never be followed. You're allowed to have a seat, and you're allowed to have a voice, but you are not allowed to have a vote."
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"A good idea always attracts other good ideas."
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"Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter."
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"As with writing by candlelight, one's greatest ideas come from 'the flickering' between darkness and light."
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"Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe."
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"Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together."
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"Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow."
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"There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one."
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"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."
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"Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing."
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"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy."
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"The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say."
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"Revolution begins in putting on bright colors."
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"The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."
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"The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good."
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"Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things."
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"Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself."
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"Creativity is the work of your hands or the work of your tongue so you have to be careful what you say because it would cost you big time."
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"Sometimes i am not sure.if i am writing the poemor the poemis writing me."
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
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"There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."
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"Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard."
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"The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life.Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl."
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"You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that."
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"If you start to do things that nobody does, you will get things that nobody gets."
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"His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own."
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"You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming."
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"If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
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"Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce."
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"Insomnia is the act of pushing through sleep to achieve the art of insane creativity."
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"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
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"Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers."
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"A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places."
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"Any fool can kill. It takes genius to create."
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"Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art."
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"It's not about quoting somebody else's words - Its about creating yourself!"
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"Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me, it is my life."
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"I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody."
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"Creativity happens only when ego is absent,when you are relaxed, in deep rest, when there is really no desire to do something. Suddenly you are gripped;some unknown force overwhelms you,takes possession of you."
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"The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature."
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"Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world."
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"What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul."
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"Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal."
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"Neruda had his first dream, First meeting with the Moon and the Sun In sunny La Mancha, hiding in his heart,Where he learned how to sing like a nightingale."
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"I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example..."
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