Quotes About Creativity

The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

The secret to high performance and satisfaction is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.

The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

My house is me and I am it and it looks like all my dreams". - the Big Orange Splot

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality.

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

NEVER start sketching screens and then try to reverse-engineer a CM from them. This is a rookie mistake that can get you ejected from the Jedi academy.

The theatre is irresistible, organise the theatre!

Schubert's String Quartet in D Minor

A man who is pleased with himself can be an adequate restorer but only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can be a truly great restorer. Luigi Conti

Indeed, there were more blank spots on the canvas than those covered with pigment. Gabriel effectively had to repaint the entire work, incorporating the small

I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves" — Edgar Allan Poe

like literary fiction, mathematical imagination entertains pure possibilities.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. ALBERT EINSTEIN

At its rawest, fashion is material sewn together in a sequential method. But it's so much more. Fashion creates a mood, captures a moment. It evokes something that you never knew was inside you. Fashion is one of the most underrated stimulants one can encounter.

People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.

He was a man with a tin-ear present who dreamed of a rock-opera future.

I am still, relentlessly, reading Agee, and Flannery, too. Two of the writers who fired me to write post–Marine Corps, when I needed it, were Mr. McGuane and Mr. Harrison, and their books are always nearby, well thumbed. And Kawabata and James Salter, both of whom floor me.

James Agee and Flannery O'Connor have impacted on me hardest

From the wounded soul comes poetry and music. In return, music and poetry heals the soul.