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Creativity Quotes
"For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique."
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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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"Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either."
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"Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers."
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"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."
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"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
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"The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work of your hands."
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"The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use."
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"Sometimes i think there must be a sort of pollen of ideas floating in the air, which fertilizes similarly minds here and there which have not had direct contact."
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"My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all."
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"At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas."
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"Creativity in and of itself is a type of energy vibration."
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"I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image."
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"Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest."
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"Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness."
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"For a long time imagination was all i had. I allowed it to take me to all the places i yearned to be, all the sights i longed to see, make beauty out of all thats been and create art from this suffering."
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"As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself."
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"Dissatisfaction with status quo is the psychology behind creative disruptions."
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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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"Life wants you to thrive in the domain of your own unique creative vision for your yourself."
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"Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing."
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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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"Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within."
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"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
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"Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals."
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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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"The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good."
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"But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process."
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"True creativity often starts where language ends."
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"Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause."
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"I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery."
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"It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them."
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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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"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."
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"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
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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 mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one."
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"Open your umbrella of creativity when glaring heat of adversity hits you unaware."
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"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."
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"And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless."
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"I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut."
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"There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself."
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"Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch."
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"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
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