Quotes About Creativity

Genius is independent of situation.

Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

A dirty word in the film business right now is intelligence.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.

Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.

It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.

When the future looks dark, do not panic, because future does not exist yet; by using your intelligence, you can always turn it to bright!

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.

I like to think I've written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

We all have the same pallet of emotional paints. It is how we pigment them on the canvas of life that dictates our artistry.