Quotes About Creativity

In the world of imagination, all things belong.

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work.

In truth, the writer's problems are usually psychological, like everyone else's.

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it, a wise man once told me.

In fact, the common experience of those who walk with God is one of being given images of what can be.

I come from a long line of tall-tale talkers. Our family crest is bullets over crossed fingers and underneath it says, 'Bullshit Über Alles.

Kids need their minds blown every now and then. It'll keep them from thinking that managing a McDonald's is the most they can hope for.

My back feels like someone beat me with a pillowcase full of tuna-fish cans.

When you live with a dead man's head that won't shut up and smokes all your cigarettes, the only way to deal with the awfulness is to make it so unbelievably awful that it becomes kind of weirdly beautiful. Like an exploding giraffe full of fireworks.

I mean, if we're just a mistake it means that anything nice we do is special. Any music or paintings or movies or people we love. They're all special because we're not even supposed to be here.

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.

For Dieste, art in general and religious architecture in particular is not a luxury but a basic commodity, like potatoes.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

Richard Kirshenbaum

TRIGGER 1. YOUR IDEAL PRODUCT DOESN'T EXIST The first trigger is the simplest. Is there a product or service you really want that is not available?

The most successful people change the world not through sweat and tears but through ideas and passion. It is not a matter of hard work or time on the job; it is having a different view, an original idea, something that expresses their individuality and creativity. Success comes from thinking, then acting on those thoughts.

Innovation is the name of the game;

Creativity," Einstein famously said, "is more important than knowledge.

I give people the latitude to express their imagination.

It's a philosophy promoted by Silicon Valley start-ups that the best people are those who don't know that something "can't be done," and therefore will figure out how to do it.

So far as his beliefs about the primary world were concerned, Tolkien was a traditional, orthodox Catholic. So far as his subcreated world was concerned, he claimed the right to say, not how things are, but how, within the limits set by his fundamental beliefs, they could be.

A semicomma, we should note, doesn't exist; we just made the word up. But it sounds like a punctuation mark that should exist, doesn't it?