Quotes About Creativity

the poetry lies in the crude handling of the paint rather than in the subject matter.

It's as if a thousand different sensations have been merged, but just barely, and only by a superhuman act of creativity.

There are no new plots, but there are plenty of fresh new characters with whom you can grab the reader. Characterization is the key to successful commercial fiction. Characterization starts with goal, motivation, and conflict. Character

Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and other times we bang our heads against the wall wondering why we do this to ourselves.

With creative usage of these three elements (questions, follow-up comments, follow-up questions), the possibilities and variations in conversation are virtually limitless.

Un adev?rat artist nu abandoneaz? niciodat? frumuse?ea

In my experience, I've noticed that waiting on tables is one of two things that almost everyone thinks they can do. The other is writing. Perhaps it's no accident that there is only one letter of difference between waiter and writer.

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

A theatre is not only a literal place, but also a space where we dream together; not merely a building, but a space that is both imaginative and collective. pg. 1

theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt. pg 1.

A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth.

for journalists words are simply tokens to be arranged and rearranged indifferently. But for an artist there can be only one ideal order.

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

The greatest writers have no purpose but to incite in the minds of each reader the highest and best thought of which they are capable.

What we call originality is no more than ignorance of antecedents.

Originality and creativity do not result from calculated effort, but from the natural state of consciousness—an open mind at play.

Tidak ada awal dan akhir. Tidak ada sebab dan akibat. Tidak ada ruang dan waktu. Yang ada hanyalah Ada. Terus bergerak, berekspansi, berevolusi. Sia-sialah orang yang berusaha menjadi batu di arus ini, yang menginginkan kepastian ataupun ramalan masa depan karena sesungguhnya justru dalam ketidakpastian manusia dapat berjaya, menggunakan potensinya untuk berkreasi.

Manusia bermimpi tidak hanya waktu ia tidur. Menurut saya, mimpi merupakan bentuk lain dari kreativitas. Menjadi kreatif tidak kenal siang atau malam. Ada banyak pekerjaan yang masih punya ruang untuk inspirasi, tapi banyak juga pekerjaan yang menyita segalanya. Pekerjaan tanpa mimpi, atau tanpa waktu untuk bermimpi, adalah pekerjaan robot. Bukan manusia.

Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don't validate. Indulge what you don't like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!

When we feel fear, we shrink away, but when we're excited we go toward. Let's go toward. Let's go farther. Let's invite the creative into ourselves.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.