Quotes About Creativity

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their funny money.

Money undergoes a conversion when one has more of it than is strictly necessary. When there is enough of it to move beyond the strict survival mode, money goes in search of beauty. That is to say, in search of the abstract and the imaginary. Just like poetry, which is the distillation of an excess of language. Too much money and too many words tend toward the poetic.

A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he's worth something. And if I know for sure that I'm a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

A poem, novel or play that does not in some sense relate to previous texts is, in fact, literally unimaginable.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

At its best, history nurtures within us humility and gratitude. It encourages respect and empathy. It fosters creativity and stimulates the imagination. It inspires resilience. And it does so by illuminating the simple truth that, whether due to some cosmic fluke or divine providence, it's an absolute miracle that any one of us is alive today, walking around on this tiny sphere surrounded by an ocean of space, and that we are, above everything else, all in this together.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. —From "On Listening to Lectures" by Plutarch

if you are smart enough, you can look at anything and think of twenty possible ways that is might be useful at some point in the future, so you just keep it.

William Shakespeare

Andrew Clements

In the school library there's an old Book Week poster that says 'Get Lost in a Book.' Well, we do that. We lose ourselves in books for hours and hours—books about all kinds of people and tons of different places. Then we come back, and we bring things with us. When we get lost like that, I think we find all kinds of cool stuff.

Ama hayat bir romandan ibaret de?ildir; kendini sanatsal bir varl?k, bir sanat eseri sayacak kadar kibirli insanlar aksini dü?ünebilirler ancak.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret

The most difficult thing about writing, I'm discovering, is not the act of constructing the sentences themselves. It's deciding what to put in, and where, and what to leave out. I'm constantly second-guessing myself. I chose the accident, but I could just as easily have started with any point during my thirty-five years of life before that. Why not start with: " I was born in the year 19-, in the city of -?

The young Melville felt constricted by prevailing standards of taste, and knew that in order to make a place for himself in the emerging American literary scene he would have to push his readers to expand their range of curiosity and tolerance.

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

All fiction is about writing.

I was a writer, after all. Shouldn't I have a book?