Quotes About Creativity

Indigos express their "rage against the machine" in many different ways. Fashion

Lack mentality" directed toward time is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Constant worries and fears concerning lack of time are energy draining and creativity blocking! Remind yourself often, "There is plenty of time!" Say it over and over again, and your tension will dissipate. Our schedules feel freer once we release the concern that there isn't enough time.

Anything you can do to make the world a more beautiful place is worth trying.

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.

Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.

Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as you become aware of more choices and begin to make them -- consciously and unconsciously -- your style will develop.

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

when]asked, "What should I do if I want to become a writer?" "Well," Doris said, with that steely twinkle in her dark eyes, "My best advice for you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to work like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you'll make a wonderful life.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so ' reducing it to a simple formula.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Civic participation depends on creativity, an (aesthetic) knack for reframing experience, and on a corollary freedom to adjust laws and practices in light of ever-new challenges. Without art, citizenship would shrink to compliance, as if society were a closed text. Reading lessons would stop at the factual "what is," rather than continue to the speculative "what if.

Leadership, Boal concluded, is the art of facilitating imaginative interventions by the greatest possible number...

We should worry again about the connection between play-starved education and eroded mechanisms for political debate, if worry can lead beyond deadlocks. Too often, academic essays pursue analysis and critique but stop short of speculation about remedies, as if intellectual work excluded an element of creativity. In fact, essays that remain risk-averse miss the potential of the genre to "assay," or try out, ideas.

When you didn't live in a strict corporate world, you didn't have to worry about fitting in and being politically correct all the time. You could afford the luxuries of self-expression. We took advantage of self-expression in spades.

because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but not always, a far richer experience than a book turned into a movie.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.