Quotes About Creativity

Don't panic. If you write, you'll be a writer.

Read The Story of O . Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.

when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.

And this is why I believe that ART is an important part of a well-rounded education, not as an alternative to STEM education, but as a fundamental part of it. I want us to start putting ART into STEM, to make STEAM.*

If imagination is not set to the task of building a creative life, it busies itself with weaving a web of inner fears and doubts, blame and excuse. —LAURENCE G. BOLDT

Hey, as long as you're not moving the story forward at all, why not have a pod race?

Sometimes, the Best Adventures are the Ones We can only Dream about.

The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180 000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read.

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

Just around the corner in every woman's mind - is a lovely dress, a wonderful suit, or entire costume which will make an enchanting new creature of her.

As soon as one stops searching for knowledge, or if one imagines that it need not be creatively sought in the depths of the human spirit but can be assembled extensively by collecting and classifying facts, everything is irrevocably and forever lost.

Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.

In some respects, Nero was ahead of his time. He boiled his drinking water to remove the impurities and cooled it with unsanitary ice to put them back in. He renamed the month of April after himself, calling it Neroneus, but the idea never caught on because April is not Neroneus and there is no use pretending that it is. During his reign of fourteen years, the outlying provinces are said to have prospered. They were farther away.

It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to racing motorcycles—and

flow - a state that some artists experience in their creative moments and that many other people achieve when enthralled by a film, a book, or a crossword puzzle; interruptions are not welcome in any of these situations.

These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster.

The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced six-cent-mihaly) has done