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Creativity Quotes
"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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"Art is the medium through which you express the inexpressible, convey the unconveyable, transporting the audience in different realms of existence erasing their mental identities. Any effort by the artist to make an personal identity is detrimental in an artistic sense. Be Wiser, leave no residue, dissolve in ART!"
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"From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books."
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"My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch-a fantasy one."
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"I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on."
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"If you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou,then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you,do something else."
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"The world was made by God's Word...make your own world with your words."
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"The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest."
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"After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind."
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"Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings."
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"Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash."
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"One must act in painting as in life, directly."
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"The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first."
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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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"To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives 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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"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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"If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you."
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"Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others."
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"Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real."
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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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"I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea."
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"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along."
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"What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches."
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"I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation."
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"An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself."
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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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"Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes."
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"True creativity often starts where language ends."
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"The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it."
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"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
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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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"I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp."
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"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."
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"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
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"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one."
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"Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go."
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"Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity."
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"A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence."
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"Trying to force creativity is never good."
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"I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule."
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"Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor."
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"But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended."
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"Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do."
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"The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it."
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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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"Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."
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"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better."
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