Quotes About Creativity

You can't write with your head. I want you to write with your hand

The gentle patter of the rain was punctuated by the scratching of pencil on paper.

This visit by these two men made my pen go limp.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

If we listen, the air is heavy with poems, ripe for plucking.

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

Il te restera toujours tes rèves pour réinventer le monde que l'on t'a confisqué.

fasciné par les mots... ces assemblages de caractères morts qui, pris entre une majuscule et un point, ressuscitaient d'un coup, devenaient phrases, devenaient foules, devenaient force et esprit. Tout

Bad weather doesn't give you ideas about going to visit a flower garden.

Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.

he and Smokey would exchange pickup lines and laments and rhymes until they had possible stanzas for a new song. One came up with "You got a smile so bright / you know you coulda been a candle." The other responded with "I'm holding you so tight / You know you coulda been a handle." And eventually they had composed "The Way You Do the Things You Do.

Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano. What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.

If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.

Have I ever said that Turner once actually had himself lashed to the mast of a ship, to be able to later do a painting of a storm? Which has never failed to remind me of the scene in which Odysseus does the identical thing, of course, so that he can listen to the Sirens singing but will stay put.

To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!