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Creativity Quotes
"I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself."
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"Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist."
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"It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity."
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"So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference."
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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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"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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"But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape."
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"To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing."
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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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"There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances."
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"I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece."
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"The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product."
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"The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice."
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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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"I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!"
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"Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other."
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"The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story."
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"The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie."
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"Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate."
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"When I think about my new CD, the word "joy" comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album."
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"This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief."
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"Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
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"I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right."
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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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"I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea."
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"I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all."
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"I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas."
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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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"The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me."
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"At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet."
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"When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist."
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"Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever."
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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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"Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done."
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"Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many more to The Courant, and another to The St. Petersburg Times."
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"The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea."
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"I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform."
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"Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas."
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"It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea."
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"I create my music for fun not because I have to, that is why it sounds magical and unique."
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"No where in 'humpty dumpty' did it say he was an egg. Maybe your inability to think outside of what others have taught you is what's keeping you from putting him together again."
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"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them."
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"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
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"Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky."
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"At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry's language, entering Henry's world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness."
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"To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity."
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"One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
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