Quotes About Creativity

She wanted a true partnership fueled by intellect and creativity, respect and desire.

I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.

It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.

On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.

That's what we do with our pain," she said, watching the butterfly rise. "We make it into something beautiful." "We make it into something meaningful," said the diva. "We make it matter," whispered the actress.

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

I'd wish you good luck, but you won't need it. You get to write your own story now. Nothing's luckier than that.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine...

Yet I had such joy from the words.

I stood there in a trance, the bucket at my feet, listening as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

Absolutely. It's the unhappy people who get things done. Have you ever noticed that? They build things. And discover things. And invent things. Like calculus. Only a very unhappy person could have come up with that. The happy ones just sit around eating strudel.

You've gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you're studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

And it's time you learnd there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your witing takes an incredible amount of work. Your life takes more.

He looked over at me. "Indigo," he said. "Cyan". He glanced at the road in front of him, glanced at me. He reached over and ran his fingers down one of the darkest strands in the back, where I'd used a little purple. "Violet.

I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.

Art is the most effective form of communication.

We're not talking about your life. We're talking about your writing. Your imagination. Your creativity. And it's time you learned there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your writing takes an incredible amount of work. Your life takes more.

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

I feel like I've been through a lot in the past couple of years, But I've kept pretty stable. That's because I channel that emotion into performance. I can handle emotion as long as it's only a song. It works for me, and I don't want to change it. I don't have anything left for writing.

Sam was creative and dedicated, but his wasn't the plodding bright-and-early work ethic of the morning person, like mine. It was the crazy creative burst of the night owl, long dark hours of despair before dawn.

You can draw!" I exclaimed. "Yeah," his voice echoed from the kitchen. "I mean really draw [...]" "I told you I would major in art, hypothetically." "Yeah, but I thought the bullshit you fed me about lifting up the human spirit was compensation for not being able to draw.