Quotes About Creativity

For the first thing a writer should be is—excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

Books are smart and brilliant and wise. Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

The sense of this, it seemed to me, might be that from above or below, or from any point of the compass, the creative Word might be heard, which is the great thesis of democracy. Democracy assumes that anybody from any quarter can speak, and speak truth, because his mind is not cut off from the truth. All he has to do is clear out his passions and then speak.

I tell you, mythology I think of as the homeland of the Muses, the inspirers of poetry. And to see life as a poem, and yourself participating in a poem, is what the myth does for you.

The sense of this, it seemed to me, might be that from above or below, or from any point of the compass, the creative Word might be heard, which is the great thesis of democracy.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.

It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

For you need imagination to form a notion of beauty at all, and still more to discover your ideal in an unfamiliar shape.

To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to think that the world is good. It is enough to believe that there is no impossibility of it being made so.

Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.

A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors...

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

He was absurd to the point of inspiration.

you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies.

I could be eloquent were I not afraid you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies.

that a work of art is very seldom limited to one exclusive meaning and not necessarily tending to a definite conclusion. And this for the reason that the nearer it approaches art, the more it acquires a symbolic character.

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.

Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors.

The mind of man is capable of anything." ? Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary