Quotes About Creativity

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

I've always had an active imagination.

You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening - everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, "I did that.

It's better to create something that others criticize than to create nothing and criticize others. Ricky Gervais

I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them it's to push them.

Lizzy stepped back and noticed that each quilt block appeared to have been placed inside of a window frame. It made her think about how every window on earth had a different view—and that outside of every window was a world of possibilities.

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

Some Neanderthal had the magical idea of blowing through a reed ... to entertain the children one night in a cave somewhere. Then, in a blink of an eye ... civilization.

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.

My pen is the key to a fantastic bordello, and once the gate is opened, it ejaculates a bloody ink. The virgin paper set to shriek evokes worlds heretofore unknown: eruptive, incorruptible, suffocating.

I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper." ("The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi")

Je dis qu'il faut être voyant, se faire voyant. Le poète se fait voyant par un long, immense et raisonné dérèglement de tous les sens.

Madame X set up a piano in the Alps.

How can you write if you can't cry?

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.