Quotes About Creativity

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Okay. There it is. I dressed up. As an owl. And fought crime. Perhaps you begin to see why I half expect this summary of my career to raise more laughs than poor cuckolded Moe Vernon with his foam teats and his Wagner could ever hoped to have done.

You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

With your depth of field and curious soul, allowing something to evolve or to see meaning in playful accidents can make the difference between creating the same old thing, or something that is unique, valuable, lasting, beautiful.

That's Beethoven's fifth... Da da da dum! Heh heh. That's morse code, y'know. Uh, morse code? Hmm. It's morse code for the letter v.

Wherever did these jumped-up monkeys get all their ideas from?

We aren't contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause!

In our narratives we may signify without constraint.

Son pocos los individuos a quienes la musa les envía ideas brillantes envueltas para regalo. Los demás nos lo tenemos que currar.

Je crois que la magie est de l'art, et que l'art est littéralement de la magie. L'art, comme la magie, consiste à manipuler les symboles, les mots ou les images pour produire des changements dans la conscience.

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

An intractable problem can only be resolved by stepping beyond conventional solutions

Escribir puede ser exigente, pero los momentos de progreso compensan de sobra. Cuando creamos, siento que estamos a sólo un milímetro de lo divino.

It was to the small serious boy that he turned for his enjoyment. He had bought the child some cheap wooden blocks, and with these the little one played endlessly and intently, with a purpose obscure to the adult mind, but completely absorbing.

Windows are for people with no imagination.

Do you want to see my dolls?" Alice asked. "I have princess dolls and soldier dolls. Today, the princess dolls rescued the soldier dolls from the evil dragon.

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

People gravitate toward products that are bold, but instantly comprehensible: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable--MAYA.

The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency—to make your audience see the familiarity behind the surprise.

It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?

successful creations grow most predictably when they tap into a small network of people who do not see themselves as mainstream, but rather bound by an idea or commonality that they consider special. People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.