Quotes About Creativity

I avoid writing until I can't avoid it anymore. Until writing comes knocking at my door like a friend I've neglected.

My muse, whatever it is, is leading me to write stories.

I'm a storyteller, and it's a storyteller's job to take on other people's voices. To present as real a picture of things as possible. Every storyteller will write a different story.

Because whether inspiration comes from an actual place or not doesn't matter if you don't choose to do something with it. And if you do choose to do something with it, the stories you create don't matter unless they make ripples in the world.

I'm finding out that if you have the ending from the get-go, then you're in good shape. Problem is, I rarely have the ending from the get-go.

Sometimes I don't feel like writing at all...It seems so selfish, writing.

This is where the inspiration for books comes from. Images and ideas and sounds from these worlds seep through the water and into our dimension. And those things inspire people like you. Storytellers.

Who can live without it? I ask in all honesty, what would life be, without a song or a dance what are we?

Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

People who follow others' footsteps will never leave their own footsteps.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

What is the point of literature? I think that the person who asks that question will not find my answer convincing anyway

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Maybe slavery has been with us for centuries because of the inclination to maintain economic systems geared more toward commodifying human existence than developing its spiritual, creative, or scientific potentials. Such commodification instantly erases any recognition of humanity as a priceless value unto itself and reduces individuals as well as entire races, or a specific gender, to a bargain-priced 'other.