Quotes About Creativity

I write for the girl I once was, who found paradise in the pages of a book and pure music in the characters' voices . . .

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

The house, shut up like a pocket watch, those tight hearts breathing inside— she could never invent them.

So before you let people blunder around reinventing the process every time someone gets the urge to innovate, it makes sense to understand it first.

Companies such as Google (and, historically, 3M) operationalize this theory by giving employees time at work to do whatever they want, without restriction or guidance.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

When I was a girl I only had two friends, and they were imaginary. And they would only play with each other.

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

Art imitates nature, but does not copy it.

we are naturally inclined to search for happiness, but he argues that nature has destined us never to find it. We will always be somewhat discontented, and that very discontent is good for us by spurring on our energies and our creativity.

Calculo, como si fuera informe de gobierno, que he publicado unos 60 mil dibujos en 60 años, y si contara todos los que he hecho, dibujo por dibujo, paso de los cien mil fácilmente.

We gain knowledge by going through life, education, reading and other learning techniques. And with this knowledge we are now able to imagine.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.