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Creativity Quotes
"It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough."
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"Unwritten words grow out of silence."
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"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."
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"One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards."
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"We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done."
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"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."
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"Art is the objectification of feeling."
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"It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."
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"Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent."
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"I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually."
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"Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us."
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"Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life."
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"Creativity is just connecting things."
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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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"The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you."
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"The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it."
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"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships."
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"The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep."
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"A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs."
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"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
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"The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it."
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"When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left."
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"Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one."
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"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
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"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."
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"Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas."
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"The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal."
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"That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon."
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"My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do."
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"The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind."
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"There's no such thing as writer's block, so long as you've had plenty of time to think about what you want to write."
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"The thinking ability or creative intelligence for a man is same as sexuality for a woman, and believe me, the latter is far more dangerous than all the nukes in this world."
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"As long as you write, you'll never be lonely."
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"I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to."
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"The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction."
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"Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat."
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"A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem."
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"I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image."
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"Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them."
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"An artist's career always begins tomorrow."
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"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea."
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"The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others."
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"Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around."
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"I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining."
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"A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'."
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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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"If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'"
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"When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat."
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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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