Quotes About Creativity

When a child grows old enough to know J.R.R. Tolkien was just staring at a typewriter, the truth can be a wounding exposé.

To you, the fairy tale's a cheesy medium that builds physically unsound worlds that one eventually outgrows, and to me a fairy tale is city planning.

I'm just some fingers resting lightly on a cursor as it slides magically around a kind of Ouija board.

Don't let people tell you your ideas are stupid. If you're really passionate about something, find a way to build it.

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition. ("Talking In The Dark")

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Creativity is an ability given to us at birth, and thankfully, it cannot be lost. Creativity only goes into hiding and lies dormant from lack of

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And mostly I believe the artists further the systematic murder of the real

There's a better way. There has to be education, and the education has to come from the poets and musicians, because it has to touch the heart rather than the intellect, it has to get in there deeply.

I am not an artist in the independent sense, I'm part of dynamic situations, and that's where I like it.

It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement ? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film.

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.

A worthy editor has one primary directive: to make the creative people look good. To do this, he must sometimes demand further work. He doesn't do it casually. Remember, more work for you means more work for him, too. If

Once in a while there was a volcanic outburst into the consciousness, when some new idea, the solution to a problem, burbled up flecked with the detritus of its birth - pride, rage, ambition, prejudice, all the freight of human creativity.

Learn the writer's craft, write regularly, grow to love the practice for its own sake-and inspiration will either come on a particular day or it won't, but you'll have prepared the way for it.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Art isn't the answer. It's another way of asking the question.

Change is always good when managed properly, and we mustn't be afraid of it at all. In my view, a Comfort Zone may offer the security, but it's only after stepping out of the Comfort Zone that we find our true potential, brilliance extraordinaire and captivating creativity. So we should always welcome the Change, and most importantly, must manage it smartly.

Creativity and Innovation emerge out of one's love for life. You must be in love with life in order to be creative and innovative, so that you can enhance the beauty, elegance and grace of life.