Quotes About Creativity

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.

Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device.

CAMPBELL: I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

Art brings out the grand lines of nature. Antione Bourdelle

To translate knowledge and information into experience: that seems to be the function of literature and art.

Mythology is the song. It is the song of the imagination, inspired by the energies of the body.

CAMPBELL: Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. Most

CAMPBELL: There has to be a training to help you open your ears so that you can begin to hear metaphorically instead of concretely. Freud and Jung both felt that myth is grounded in the unconscious. Anyone writing a creative work knows that you open, you yield yourself, and the book talks to you and builds itself. To a certain extent, you become the carrier of something that is given to you from what have been called the Muses—or, in biblical language, "God." This

a curious characteristic of our unformed species that we live and model our lives through acts of make-believe.

Each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

Perfection would be a bore, wouldn't it? CAMPBELL: It would have to be. It would be inhuman

Pluralism makes a unifying myth impossible. But if we cannot reinstate such a mythology we can, at least, return to the source from which mythology springs - the creative imagination.

Mythology is the song. Its the flight of the imagination inspired by the energy of the body.

Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage.

doing nothing often leads to the very best of something

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

No one can write a book which children will like, unless he write it for himself first. – A. A. Milne

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

She loved the beauty and the grace of the good old days, but not the rules that kept kids from talking and women from lifting heavy objects if they wanted to. Raleia was beginning to think it would be better to invent a whole new time period where she could pull things from then and now to make the perfect place.

Without limitations, how does one find satisfaction?

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.