Quotes About Creativity

Foaly almost grinned. Whatever I need to do.

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He had also written a computer

knit a sweater of ants

I have created a brand-new conundrum, he thought and the idea pleased him greatly.

Jon Spiro might have stuff that the military didn't have, but Artemis Fowl had stuff that humans had never seen.

If you wish to be a writer; write! Send quote to a friend Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.

grammar will tell you how to write; but whether to write or not, grammar will not tell.

And then we'll be emulating Socrates,* once we're able to write hymns of praise in prison.

It's like weaving: the weaver does not make the wool, he makes the best use of whatever wool he's given.

Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty

This is going to be the most . . . what is that name—Goldberg? Yes, Rube Goldberg–inspired operation I have ever imagined. Are you sure that we do not need to trigger it all with a hamster on a wheel? I dunno, Jackie said. Do you have a hamster on board? Let me check the medical supplies . . .

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

The only way to reform modern lettering is to abolish it.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration

The most incurably frustrated—and, therefore, the most vehement—among the permanent misfits are those with an unfulfilled craving for creative work. Both those who try to write, paint, compose, etcetera, and fail decisively, and those who after tasting the elation of creativeness feel a drying up of the creative flow within and know that never again will they produce aught worth-while, are alike in the grip of a desperate passion.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

To the Jews the age of 13 (the Sumerian unit of 12 plus 1) marks the threshold of adulthood. It is curious how significant multiples of 13 are in the individual's life. At 2 x 13 the mind catches up with the body. 3 x 13 marks the beginning of a change of life. At 4 x 13 creative people catch their second breath. 5 x 13 is the age of retirement, and 6 x 13 most often marks the end of life.

As easy a day as one could wish and no sort of unpleasantness. Still the depression this evening is as black as yesterday. I must face the fact that the chief reason for the depression is that I cannot compose.

with a fading of the individual's creative powers there appears a pronounced inclination toward joining a mass movement. Here the connection between the escape from an ineffectual self and a responsiveness to mass movements is very clear. The slipping author, artist, scientist—slipping because of a drying-up of the creative flow within—drifts sooner or later into the camps of ardent patriots, race mongers, uplift promoters and champions of holy causes.

what there of is of jazz at its best is heavy stuff: it is small, but made of uranium

restrictions create frustrations!

And we all know when a sistuh gets mad, a sistuh gets athletically creative.