Quotes About Creativity

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.

Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.

Today's young people suffer from an overdose of information processing and many of them are trying to come back from information to meaning processing to reinvent the meaning of their lives. Here again all they need is inner situational creativity.

The world is not determined by initial conditions, once and for all. Every event of measurement is potentially creative and may open new possibilities.

Quantum physics presents a new and exciting worldview that challenges old concepts, such as deterministic trajectories of motion and causal continuity. If initial conditions do not forever determine an object's motion, if instead, every time we observe, there is a new beginning, then the world is creative at the base level.

Somewhere along the line I also recognized that spiritual growth is "inner" creativity, as contrasted to creativity in the arts and the sciences, which is "outer" creativity.

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.

Kanai, the dreamers have everyone to speak for them,' she said, 'But those who try to be strong, who try to build things - no one ever sees any poetry in that, do they?

Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

I am an idea without hands.

The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

We work hard at X to make it safe to fail. Teams kill their ideas as soon as the evidence is on the table because they're rewarded for it. They get applause from their peers. Hugs and high fives from their manager, me in particular. They get promoted for it. We have bonused every single person on teams that ended their projects, from teams as small as two to teams of more than 30.48

Jazz at Lincoln Center, says of his work with other jazz musicians: "There are always tensions that come up. Part of working is dealing with tensions. If there's no tension, then you're not serious about what you're doing.

The Braintrust's recipe is fairly simple: a group of directors and storytellers watches an early run of the movie together, eats lunch together, and then provides feedback to the director about what they think worked and what did not. But the recipe's key ingredient is candor. And candor, though simple, is never easy.

Pixar director Andrew Stanton offers advice for how to choose people for an effective feedback group. They must, he says, "make you think smarter and put lots of solutions on the table in a short amount of time."6 Stanton's point about having people around who make us "think smarter" gets to the heart of why psychological safety is essential to innovation and progress. We can only think smarter if others in the room speak their minds.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist.

had ideas, crazy, late-night fantasies strung together like a paper-clip chain.

There should be no shame in music.