Quotes About Creativity

A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.

For art is about desire, is it not, and never its consummation?

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

Though the mass of mankind is a cacophony of fools, oafs, tyrants, and zealots, from that noise can arise the most beautiful of notes.

Instead of throwing traps into

You'd look beautiful in a feedbag dress tied in the middle with a rope.

drip and fling and pour color onto the glass. Then I push the paint around. You have to have some faith. If it looks like nothing, if you think you've destroyed what might have been a good painting, keep at it. If you've scraped all but a few streaks away, chances are those streaks will suggest something else. Don't give up. Don't be afraid of the mess.

Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might; often you need to take the long way around. And if you're writing memoir you're bound to discover things about yourself you didn't realize before, may indeed prefer never to have know, but there you are: progress of some sort.

What is art, anyway, except not pounding on walls.

There is something very wrong with a people who consider that the greatest that would ever be has already been, and that the best they can do is to duplicate the past.

What India expected of its artists was craft skill, not creativity; conformity to tradition, not originality

There are dead thoughts and there are living thoughts. A dead thought has been compared to a stone which one may plant in the soil. Nothing will come out. A living thought is like a seed. In the process of thinking, an answer without a question is devoid of life. It may enter the mind; it will not penetrate the soul. It may become a part of one's knowledge; it will not come forth as a creative force.

Creative thinking is not stimulated by vicarious issues but by personal problems.

Above all, remember that the meaning of life is to live as if it were a work of art. You're not a machine. When you're young, start working on this great work of art called your own existence.

Above all, remember that the meaning of life is to live it as if it were a work of art. You're not a machine. When you're young, start working on this great work of art called your own existence.

Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it...

Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

December] 20th. [1862] Now I can ride. I have a pumpkin in each end of my sack.

Make something beautiful of your life.

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?... Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223... And pray, why would this number interest us? It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.