Quotes About Creativity

I'm taking an art class, and the nude model just quit. Because I like to finger paint.

If I could paint, I would do it myself.

I open my eyes and stare at the page. I see the black letters. But I also see the pinks and greens and purples and yellows. I can't say I'm surprised.

I wrote my first poem about a bunny. 'Bunny, bunny, hop hop hop. White and soft like a little mop.

Admit it, if you suddenly had magical powers, you would have turned that leftover meat loaf into pizza, too.

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What is it?" Philip said. "I'm creating a work of confectionary art here." "Well

Pornography allows a woman's imagination to run wild. And nothing on earth is more human than wondering "what if.

We had money, but there was nothing to buy. Instead, my husband would collect grass and leaves and we'd fry them in olive oil.

In "The Decay of Lying" Oscar Wilde asserts that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation.

being able to work in a robe and slippers was one of the greatest perks of being a writer.

We're professional liars, aren't we? It's our job to keep the story interesting.

When you can sit down and produce a four-hundred-page manuscript that can transport a reader somewhere else for a spell, maybe I'll allow you to criticize.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Like Andy Rooney and Judy Garland screaming "Let's put on a play!" the

Their conscious selves expected diminishing returns. The average estimate of new endings was about five, which was fewer than they had produced in the initial four minutes. They were then given an additional four minutes to work. The actual number of new endings they generated was 20 percent higher than they estimated. They didn't give persistence enough credit.

Jane Doe had three pierced right ears and two pierced left.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.

For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.

It is only through writing that I become myself

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.