Quotes About Creativity

You are learning what you aren't writing, and this is helping you find out what you are writing. —Anne Lamott

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. —Mason Cooley

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

But everyone should try writing a little code, because it somehow sharpens the mind, right?

Oftentimes, the whole reason we became programmers in the first place is because we wanted to move beyond being a mere player and change the game, control it, modify its parameters, maybe even create our own games.

That blank sheet of paper stage is one of the hardest stages, and one of the reasons it's hard is because at that stage there's nobody counting on you but yourself ... it's really just you, and you can quit any time. Nobody is going to care.

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

It's like what Miles Davis says: "Don't worry about mistakes, there aren't any.

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.

I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother… It was my father… It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.

Music is endless and even though I've heard a whole bunch of music from so many different places and fallen in love countless times with all kinds of different music.There's still something about it,I guess it's called Freedom.

When your brain is always engaged, when your neurons are always firing, when you find yourself in a continual mode of reacting and responding, instead of steering and directing, the best and brightest solutions that you are capable of producing rarely see the light of day.

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going there was no reason to quit.

When given a choice between two, choose the third.

It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all.

The best ideas in science are always simple, elegant, and unexpected

The perfect plan was the kind that had every chance of success, but if it fell apart it had the potential to explode and create a beautiful chaos to navigate at speed, and that was generally the secret goal all along.

Engineering does not replace art in a design, it makes it possible.

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

the brain is like a muscle, and if you don't exercise it by reading and doing creative stuff, it'll get weak and mushy.

I think about my work every minute of the day.