Quotes About Creativity

We have been conditioned by today's advertising to respond instantly to the word housewife with the word drudgery. ... A creative Counterpart is more than just a helper. She is a woman who having chosen (or have found herself in) the vocation of wife and mother, decides to learn and grow in all the areas this role and to work as hard as if she were aiming for the presidency of corporation. Functioning as a professional in all areas of marriage is the essence of being a creative counterpart.

A poem wasn't really a poem, it seemed to her, unless it was full of metaphor; it took her a while to adjust to the prosody she heard in his work.

writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.

More often, a poem went through twenty or thirty drafts with amazing numbers of alterations

You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it.

For writers, a beat works in a script much as a beat works in a piece of music. In a song, single beats are grouped to make up a measure. By adding more beats (thus more measures) you create a phrase, and eventually an entire melody. In the same way, single dramatic beats or moments, placed together, create a scene. And the beats in a scene, together, create the beats of an act, and the beats of an act, together, create an entire film.

If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas

The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

software is like sex : it's better when it's free..

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

It may be that I have sought to cultivate that trait in myself to such a high degree because I think of myself primarily as a writer. The chief satisfaction in the whole business of writing, it seems to me, comes down to saying what is, or what you think is.

A man of imagination has an advantage over other people, in that an actual experience is almost always less intense than his expectations of it.

Certain numerologists in Germany had figured out that the number nine was fateful to German artists. Beethoven, Bruckner, and Mahler each wrote nine symphonies, Wagner nine operas that are still sung, Schiller, Hebbel, and Grillparzer each nine plays that are still produced.

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.

Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.