Quotes About Creativity

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

You know that part of your writing that you question, —that's weird and doesn't fit neatly into a genre or mold?Write more of that. Please.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.

I am not here in this life to be well balanced or admired. I'm here to be an oddball, eccentric, different, wildly imaginative, creative, daring, curious, inventive and even a tad strange at times.

She's a tale spinner," he said. "She spins 'em right outta the air. Tells 'em whole so's you'd think yer readin' a book.

Imagination creates reality.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

Unicamente los hombres fuertes conocen el amor, solamente el amor incluye la belleza, solamente la belleza produce el arte. El amor de los débiles entre sí no puede producir sino la satisfacción de sus apetencias lujuriosas.

Only the Strong know Love; only Love can fathom Beauty; only Beauty can fashion Art.

What was infinitely more valuable to Wagner, and what excited his gratitude to even more superlative utterance, was the confidence which Liszt showed in his genius, and without which, it is no exaggeration to say, Wagner's greatest works would probably have remained unwritten.

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.

But up in his room by artificial lightMy father paints the summer.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

Step off assuredly into the blank of your own mind. Something will come to you. Although at first You nod through nothing like a fogbound prow, Gravel will breed in the margins of your gaze

The next time you are trying to be creative in a meeting, gently lean forward and pull against the table. When the going gets tough, cross your arms to help perseverance in the face of failure. If that doesn't work, lie down. If anyone accuses you of being lazy, quietly explain that you are employing your locus coeruleus in the war against rigid thinking.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

They think the way to be a poet is to wear funny clothes and write sideways on the page.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist, if only because the creative process is such a lonely one. I should imagine it must be all the more difficult for a woman.

Oh, Frank. Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?