Quotes About Creativity

I leaned toward him, hoping the corset top would do half my work for me in smoothing the matter over. "Do you remember that one scene in The Glass House? The one where O'Neill walks that waitress home?" He raised an eyebrow. "Um, I wrote that scene.

Music is the poetry of the air.

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing—and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing. Don't become self-satisfied, don't stop moving ahead, growing, making it new. The stakes are high. Why else would we write?

There are no new stories in nature, only new observers.

I write late into the night at the Tutweiler in downtown Birmingham, and try hard to turn down that second cheeseburger at Milo's over by UAB, which has the best one in the whole wide world.

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Culturally one of the most difficult things that happens is to get creative people to understand [that] the world is no longer just defined by television. The thing that happened, and has been happening for some time here, is that our work was much more diverse than even we knew it was. And I think as we began to change, the way we tackled problems and the way that we looked at problems was completely and utterly holistic in a way that I'd probably not ever really experienced before.

You could pay Arthur Janov to teach you to scream about history, or you could learn prayer or a mantra, or you could write your life down and hope to make peace with it, write it down, or paint it, or turn it into improvisational theater, but that was the best you could probably do. You were stuck.

I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

People did what conservatives always did when the going got tough: they started a new group.

Larry McMurtry and Woody Allen, still use manual typewriters to compose their books and scripts, because computers and word processors pose too many potential distractions.

His fingers just flew over the notebook paper of their own accord. The words, just right, continued to flow from Emory, using only instinct and no thought.

Paula Creamer). It was one of those speed paintings. You

Every work of art is a request for love and attention.

Baby, your rhymes get me going.

I'm writing this story, not you, so shut up.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?

Camera's don't take pictures, people do.

I read recently that Americans are buying used cars for an average of $12,000, and I thought, Why don't they take the bus to work and make a feature film instead?

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.' Leopold Stokowski