Quotes About Creativity

I wanted to belong to the films which were trying to say something.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'

One belongs to one's language as a writer.

I always felt once it goes into movie land, the book belongs to someone else.

I would just encourage people: your childhood belongs to you, and don't give anyone, especially me, the power to ruin your childhood.

Audiences want to see something interesting. It doesn't matter which genre or period it belongs to.

Sometimes I turn the TV just below where you can hear it and write down what I think they might be saying by the mumbles and rhythms.

It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought. THEODORE ROSZAK, "IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS

Nothing suits a director any better than to hop on a train with his company and go somewhere, no matter where it is, as long as he can get away from the studio. —William Fox, December 27, 1917

The author of the document would one day come to believe that it was sacred scripture and that his writing desk was a holy object.

it's shrewd to put new words to an old tune, especially if you're trying to turn the familiar on its head.

Hugh Liedtke had a simple rule of thumb: Pick a name that started with either A or Z, so you would be first or last in the telephone listings. With that in mind, the team chose Zapata Petroleum Corporation, after the Marlon Brando movie Viva Zapata!, which was playing in Midland.

From 8 to 10 o'clock, practice music.16 From 10 to 1, dance one day and draw another. From 1 to 2, draw on the day you dance, and write a letter the next day. From 3 to 4, read French. From 4 to 5, exercise yourself in music. From 5 till bed-time, read English, write, etc.

So much of music builds on prior ideas and themes

Robert Shelton of The New York Times had reviewed a Greenwich Village performance by a young folk singer, Bob Dylan. "His clothes may need a bit of tailoring," Shelton wrote of Dylan, "but when he works his guitar, harmonica or piano, and composes new songs faster than he can remember them, there is no doubt that he is bursting at the seams with talent.

One of my dad's colleagues said, "She wants to paint with her shit. Maybe we should give her paints." And it worked.' Mary Barnes eventually became a celebrated and much-exhibited artist. Her paintings were greatly admired throughout the 1960s and 1970s for illustrating the mad, colourful, painful, exuberant, complicated inner life of a schizophrenic.

Fiction seemed all about harnessing infinity. In fiction, when you walk into a restaurant and you sit down, there's nobody there and the restaurant doesn't exist. The restaurant is a horrific, never-ending nothingness. So you make scattershot decisions about what the restaurant might look like and the person you might be sitting with.

Learning how to walk through walls was an ambitious but inexpensive enterprise.

brilliant and audacious as ever — a beat poet of paranoia. He

Classroom Activities 1. Using felt and yarn, make a hand puppet of Clarence Thomas . Ta-da! You're Antonin Scalia !

Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.