Quotes About Creativity

What so wild as words are?

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truths, to mouths like mine at least.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,Lest you should think he never could recaptureThe first fine careless rapture!

We're made so that we loveFirst when we see them painted, things we have passedPerhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;And so they are better, painted—better to us,Which is the same thing. Art was given for that.

Rafael made a century of sonnets.

Perhaps it may turn out a sang,Perhaps turn out a sermon.

Dear Sir, I'll gie ye some advice, You'll tak it no uncivil: You shouldna paint at angels, man, But try and paint the Devil. To paint an angel's kittle wark, Wi' Nick there's little danger; You'll easy draw a lang-kent face, But no sae weel a stranger.

As a good housewife out of divers fleeces weaves one piece of cloth, a bee gathers wax and honey out of many flowers, and makes a new bundle of all... I have laboriously collected this Cento out of divers writers, and... I have wronged no authors, but given every man his own.... I can say of myself, Whom have I injured? The matter is theirs most part, and yet mine...

We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer…. Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

All Poets are mad.

I had continued jotting down good lines—once the eyes and ears are awakened to the possibilities they can't be put back to sleep...

It's amazing how much funny stuff there is.... [A] river of rich comedic milk is flowing across the land, and as fast as I skim off the cream more cream appears.... I may be doomed to wade around forever in other people's pith. Not that it's such a bad life.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. —Bjarne Stroustrup, 1991

creative output depends on creative input.

When you are working on a problem, you sometimes get so close to it that you can't see all the options. You miss elegant solutions because the creative part of your mind is suppressed by the intensity of your focus. Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to go home, eat dinner, watch TV, go to bed, and then wake up the next morning and take a shower.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.