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Creativity Quotes
"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."
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"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another."
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"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
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"It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily."
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"A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible."
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"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
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"I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing."
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"Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs."
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"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
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"As long as you write, you'll never be lonely."
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"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool, it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
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"I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image."
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"For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary life the difference between throwing something in the trash and publishing it was imperceptible..."
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"I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked."
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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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"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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"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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"Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution."
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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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"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."
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"I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious."
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"It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them."
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"I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas."
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"It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals."
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"I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world."
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"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."
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"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself."
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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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"Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone."
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"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
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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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"When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound. I really love language. I love it for wate it does for us, how it allows us to explain the pain and the glory, the nuances and delicacies of our existence. And then it allows us to laugh, allows us to show wit. Real wit is shown in language. We need language."
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"Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life."
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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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"Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said 'friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier."
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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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"Creativity has often been analogized as "Thinking outside of the box."
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"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea."
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"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person."
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"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
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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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"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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"The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one."
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"Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life."
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"Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses."
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"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."
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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
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