Quotes About Creativity

Dishevelled genius; because genius doesn't need to be hevelled, whatever hevelled is.

the whole point of Bagatelle is that you trifle with the stories that people think are set in stone.

And on that night, when all he's ever known in the past couple of years started to break apart, he did not try so desperately to keep her muse. He didn't need to. He also did not soak up in bottles of rum. Instead, he went home. He went home and painted. Because before any of this has ever happened, he was a painter.

Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

In our era, it is because poetry is no longer practiced that some people can rediscover it in argot, in which the part of poetry remains small. Metaphors are to argot what the image of the Gypsy is to the Gypsy

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

A)nd while imagination flourishes alone and in secret, it also craves fellowship.

the number-one rule in making shit up: Make it so unbelievable that people have to believe it.

Writing is waiting. That's the whole of it. If you sit in your chair not doing anything else for long enough, the answer will come. You do have to be in your chair, though, ready to write it down.

It's a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone's on heat. It's a strange energy. It's full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music.

Each poet creates an expatriate space, a slightly skewed domain where things are freshly felt because they are freshly said.

A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting-Marcel Duchamp

I don't want to be pinned down to any position. My position is the lack of a position, but of course you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk you spoil the whole game-Marcel Duchamp

If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...

The landscape of Hell is the largest shared construction project in imaginative history, and its chief architects have been creative giants- Homer, Virgil, Plato, Augustine, Dante, Bosch, Michelangelo, Milton, Goethe, Blake, and more.

You cannot approach this from logic. You have to approach this from the most wild depths of your imagination.

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one.

oh each poet's a beautiful human girl who must die.

But I've always been a poet, that's all, no sex or race, no age or face. Can Eternity strip me of it? That's only another word. I'm inside myself, and inside it.

We are our songs and films.