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Creativity Quotes
"You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity."
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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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"I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence."
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"I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can."
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"Putting a book together is interesting and exhilarating. It is sufficiently difficult and complex and it engages all your intelligence. It is life at its most free. Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let it rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself."
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"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."
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"In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress."
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"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
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"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
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"Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact."
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"To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step."
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"The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity."
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"Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way."
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"One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one."
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"Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution."
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"To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings."
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"Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one."
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"Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends " sorry, I meant characters."
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"The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea."
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"The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame."
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"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."
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"The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule."
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"Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists."
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"Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material."
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"Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."
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"What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years."
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"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."
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"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."
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"You can fix anything but a blank page."
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"Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away."
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"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
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"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
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"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint."
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"I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us."
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"The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy."
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"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity."
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"Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice."
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"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost."
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"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."
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"If you're alive, you're creative."
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"Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity."
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"I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home."
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"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes."
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"The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory."
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"The Heart & Mind when in unison is the most powerful creative state for bringing your desires alive within your reality."
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"What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe."
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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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