Quotes About Creativity

I'd like to live in a world designed by Theodore Finch.

I think what an amazing world this would be if we all danced everywhere we went.

One entire wall is covered in pictures and Post-it notes and napkins and torn pieces of paper.

I like writing, but I like a lot of things. Maybe out of those things, I'm best at writing. Maybe it's what I like best of all. Maybe it's where I've always felt most at home. Or maybe the writing part of me is over. Maybe there's something else I'm supposed to do instead. I don't know.

There's this feeling you get when you write a really good, true sentence or paragraph or scene, and it makes you feel invincible, as if you can do anything. It feels like a superpower, and in that moment no one can touch you. You're the best there is. That's how you make me feel, Jeremiah Crew. Like I'm the best there is.

On my bed, I sit down and flip through the cut-up books one by one, reading all the cut-up passages.

Over my desk, I've got this enormous bulletin board, and on it I've tacked black-and-white photographs of writers at work.

Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.' 

I like to think that the colors and sounds and words have nothing to do with him, that they're all me and my own brilliant, complicated, buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, godlike brain" -Finch

The wall is a place to keep track of thoughts, as fast as they come, and remember them when they go away. Anything interesting or weird or even halfway inspired goes up there.

I wanted to write something tough, hard, sad, but funny.

I have a section for New Nameless Web Magazine.

Sometimes you got to just feel, especially when it comes to music. Notes, scales, they just get in the way.

Who cares for Algebra? Who delights in solving math? I only want to live my life Along the creative path.

At times such as this, it becomes more important for art to survive.

Writing was what I did best, better than being a daughter or girlfriend or sister. Writing was me.

Stop being afraid. Stop thinking too much.Fill the holes left behind. Drive again. Write. Breathe.

Escrever. (...) Ao longo das linhas, aceitar todo e qualquer pensamento (não tenha medo deles, independente do que sejam).

There's an art in every labour.

may look and enjoy, just as I do in the garden when the poppies are in flower. It's no blame to men if they try to put into their own artifacts all the colours and shapes God put into his.

He did look at his photos and decided he didn't like any of them: all that black and white, all that same old stuff, characters trying to be characters. He said, Are you trying to be a character?

Without error there can be no brilliancy

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.