Quotes About Creativity

Create always: As God has seen fit in His perfection to give you such abilities, work and share of your gifts.

Music (Definition; Noun): The artistic organization of sound for the joy and experience of listening.

I am increasingly convinced that humankind's best future lies within the power of the imagination, with knowledge following closely in step.

Commit yourself to bringing beauty and hope to the world. Ignore the negative and the naysayers; they are the yapping dogs outside the walls.

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..." And then do it.

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as practised by Clive James, Gore Vidal, and Michael Foot.

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

You write because the brain is an endless wilderness whose roughest terrain can only be traveled with a pencil.

to Chadron, Herschel had a brainstorm.

You were made to dream and you must dream—both for yourself and for God. God is the Author of your dreams, but you're an outlet for His.

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.

To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.

the writer is driven by his need to escape the limits of a too-small world, the World That Is. It's in his blood to range farther than life can ever let him go.

Writing is a lonely business.

The preceding chapter tells you how to communicate with your readers. With words. What should you as a fiction writer communicate? Feelings.

Feeling tells you what you want to say. Technique gives you tools with which to say it.

How do you master all the varied techniques? By writing stories. Which is to say, by being willing to be wrong. Then, having been wrong, you check back through your stuff for process errors . . . places where you skipped over steps, or went off the path, or started with the road map upside down. Do that enough times, on enough stories, and eventually you'll learn.

It is always the writer's world that we enter in art—never the objective world.)

Arbitrary rules restrict and inhibit you. Knowing why sets you free.