Quotes About Creativity

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

He knew that some believed that standardization would impede innovation; that was one of the arguments people who resisted standardization were most inclined to make. But Barton was not so sure of that.

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that's on a good day." [ Academy Award ceremony , March 2, 2014]

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

Somestimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It force you to come up with a more creative way.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

John Cleese, in a clever, funny talk he gave on creativity years ago, said you also need a sense of humour if you want to be creative. You can't manufacture a sense of humour, but if you don't have one, then you might indeed be better off reporting facts. Art is not about reporting.

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

translation. The first indication that Carroll

Ramsey spun an uncurled paper clip

Rinaldo wrote me a deathly song there, and keen was the stylus.

Where even ravi (the sun) cannot reach, there will go a kavi (poet)." - Vimalananda

Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make them real.

Writers shouldn't fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. Criticism is healthy. It gets people thinking about your work and, even better, it gets them talking and arguing. But as for silence -- it is the greatest killer of writers. So if you hate a book and want to hurt it -- don't talk about it. And if you hate my books -- please, for God's sake, shout it from the hills!

It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It's like an engine without fuel -- can't get anywhere without it. Or like a lighthouse without a light on top -- doesn't guide anyone in to home or safe harbor.

Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not'NB This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.