Quotes About Creativity

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that's all.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things." – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know.

What I'm suggesting is a list of priorities. If you have to give up something, don't ever give up emotion before story. Don't give up story before rhythm, don't give up rhythm before eye-trace, don't give up eye-trace before planarity, and don't give up planarity before spatial continuity.

This revelation about bi-planes and elephants can in turn prompt the listener to elaborate another improvisation, which will coax out another aspect of the hidden dream, and so on, until as much of the dream is revealed as possible

You are actually doing creative work, and you may find what you really want rather than what you thought you wanted.

America was living off the canned foods of art, the things held over from years before. It knew, vaguely, that there was fresh fruit, fresh meat on the tables of Paris, and it wanted its share.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Un sexo sin creatividad es demasiado animal.

Mientras la mente rígida está petrificada y cerrada al cambio y la mente líquida es gaseosa, la mente flexible posee un cuerpo modificable. No está fija en un punto ni se desliza por cualquier parte sin rumbo, sino que posee una dirección renovable. A la mente flexible le gusta el movimiento, la curiosidad, la exploración, el humor, la creatividad, la irreverencia y, por sobre todo, ponerse a prueba.

Ingenio: sutileza, perspicacia, chispa, inspiración, mente despejada y libre, no atada a condiciones previas asfixiantes. Distanciamiento: alejarse de uno mismo, alejarse del "yo" y sus inseguridades, del ego y su vanidad, poner la lógica entre paréntesis y tomar lo paradójico y lo incomprensible como punto de partida para crear humor en cantidades. Ingenio + capacidad de distanciamiento cognitivo = salud mental

Los que están enamorados y además son fieles casi nunca se aburren, porque no dejan que la chispa de la creatividad y la pasión se apague.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

Ted did part of St. Denis's poetry tours with her.

There were bickerings, outright fights, screaming tantrums, but Ted's vision of the Greater Denishawn had come true.

Is it really so important to be different?

Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.