Quotes About Creativity

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

We are all sculptors and painters. Our material is our own flesh, blood and bones. ~ Henry David Thoreau

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.

Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

Be a fountain, not a drain.

The Linda Ronstadt pitch: Blue Bayou (blew by you)

I tapped a forefinger to my temple and raised my glass of single-vineyard Foxen Pinot. "Between here and here lies the Rubicon of the imagination.

You know, that idea could be developed into a first-rate little article. Six hundred to seven hundred words, about. The Tyranny of the Wheel, you could call it, with a colored margin of trains and airplanes and ocean liners at top speed—of course liners don't have wheels, but you could do something about that—if I could persuade you, Mr. Wolfe—

A man named Olin Miller has said, "Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

Must I again remind you, Archie, of the reaction you would have got if you had asked Velasquez to explain why Aesop's hand was resting inside his robe instead of hanging by his side? Must I again demonstrate that while it is permissible to request the scientist to lead you back over his footprints, a similar request of the artist is nonsense, since he, like the lark or the eagle, has made none? Do you need to be told again that I am an artist?

What are you, a scientist, or an artist?" Wolfe was frowning at him. "If you please, Mr. Jarrett, no labels. Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Nothing corrupts a man so deeply as writing a book; the myriad temptations are overpowering. I wouldn't presume—

Must I again demonstrate that while it is permissible to request the scientist to lead you back over his footprints, a similar request of the artist is nonsense, since he, like the lark or the eagle, has made none?

He once said that I ride words bareback.

los hombres incapaces de escribir son inofensivos; los capaces, no".

Each song has its own way that it likes to be done, but it can be more than one way. If you tap into it, you can feel it.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

Your imagination is an extremely powerful tool.

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill - take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

Imagination is the true magic carpet." Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) WRITER

You have an unlimited ability to think and love.

The new century is coming. Young women should have a chance to make something of themselves. Heaven knows that most of the cooks in the great houses around the country are women. It's a natural art for us females.

You are the artist. Your emotions are your own creation.