Quotes About Creativity

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.

He dreamed of becoming a fully illustrated man.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.

You have to free your brain to roam to places that are a little impractical, and innovation consultants have come up with some great ways to encourage that. One of my favorites comes from Legrand, who tells people in group brainstorming sessions to try to come up with the WORST possible ideas that they can think of. ... Once you have a list of really, really bad suggestions - and coming up with them does force your brain to work in a different way - you try to flip them over into the positive.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

You prefer fantastical endings rather than those which illustrate reality," Slater said. "In my view there are cheerful endings and sad endings but they are all fantastical by definition—otherwise they would not be classified as fiction.

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

Let me enjoy my fan-wanking. Your what? Let me arrange the story to meet my own personal needs.

how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.

If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

Amber Tamblyn

After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. 'We were wrong,' said the croakers, 'but this at any rate is the end.' Yet to refute them, and to prove that there is no end to art, still another generation of painters sprang up.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.

Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know about the history of Spain, write about the history of Spain - fiction or nonfiction. If your fascinated by the old west, maybe your character lives there.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

It was about this time I began to seriously try to write. I commenced a tragedy which I called "Seneca." I do not remember anything about the work, except that it was laid in ancient Rome, and that Seneca was a philosopher and a senator. I showed the first act to Father, and he gave it back to me with a smile, and the opinion that "it might have been worse."

The artist Paul Klee described drawing a picture as taking a line for a walk. I have borrowed his words to explain my approach to writing; when I write a novel it is like I am taking a thought for a walk.

art practices are participatory as well as testimonial.