Quotes About Creativity

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

Pretend I asked, now answer the question...

You say that like I have a choice. These are the ideas that come to me. These are the ideas that have always come to me. If it can bleed me,eat me, or fuck me, I want to write about it. -L.K. on why she writes about sex and monsters in 'Flirt' Afterword

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.

I was new and didn't realize that brand new writers are treated like light bulbs; when one burns out, you can always buy more, screw the next one in, and it lights up just as bright. No, I am not being too harsh about how publishing treats new writers. If anything I'm toning it down. Sorry, for all you aspiring authors out there, but truth is truth, it is a hard business. Shine up the armor around your ego, harden your heart, keep your head down, and write.

Eppure continuano a chiedermi: Perchè scrivi di sesso e di mostri? L'unica risposta sincera è questa: Lo dite come se avessi scelta. Invece sono queste le idee che mi arrivano. Queste sono le idee che mi sono sempre arrivate. Voglio scrivere di esseri che possono dissanguarmi, divorarmi o portarmi a letto. Ogni ragazza ha bisogno di un hobby.

Have you ever tried nodding good morning to people while naked and holding a small arsenal of weapons?

Then I had one of those moments of desperate inspiration, a brilliant idea born of panic.

Imagination was all very well in the daylight, but it was an uncomfortable thing late at night.

No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.

Art happens when a person of talent is seized with nervous energy and discovers that he or she has nothing to do except create.

a lavishly gifted underachiever who is gaining renown less for the canvases he paints than for those we hope he'll paint.

Great wits jump

Melek de deÄŸiliz; keÅŸke olsak, ama insanlara birer beden giydirilmiÅŸtir, ve bizleri hayal güçlerimiz yönetir - ne ÅŸenlikli bir ÅŸölen. ... Gözler daha zarif bir okÅŸama saÄŸlar ve düÅŸ gücümüz üzerinde sözler kadar kolay ifadelendirilemeyen bir ÅŸeyler b?rak?r,-ya da,-bazen,var olan? da yok ederler.

Benim türümdeki yazarlar?n ressamlarla paylaÅŸt?klar? ortak bir ilke vard?r. -Asl?na tümüyle sad?k kalarak kopyalamak resimlerimizin yeterince çarp?c? olmalar?n? engellediÄŸinde, bizler ehven-i ÅŸeri (kötünün iyisini) seçer ve güzelliÄŸi ihlal etmektense hakikat? tahrif etmeyi (deÄŸiÅŸtirmeyi) yeÄŸleriz.

Kendi pay?ma, i?e yeni ba?lam?? biri olarak, bu konuda pek bir ?ey bilmiyorum - ama kan?mca, kitap yazmak, herkes ne derse desin, bir ?ark? m?r?ldanmaya benzer-bir kere ahengi tutturun yeter.

For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.

Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love. You just have to be interested in it. It's the same thing with food.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.

Dig a little, he continues. Search. Examine. Sculpt from the inside out, and not the other way around. Don't be afraid to screw up along the way.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. It's not just about bowls, you know.

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

Mr. Freeman sighs. No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!