Quotes About Creativity

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

e, al contrario dei gatti, in natura i poeti non esistono.

Sbaglio colossale come chi scrive nel risvolto che la poesia consiste nel pensare nella lingua...

questo passato inimitabile che è l'infanzia di un poeta e di una poesia.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

A remarkable thing about new technologies in the Roman period is that their creation and spread seem to have been driven by the state. This is good news, until the government decides that it is not interested in technological development—and all-too-common occurrence due to the fear of creative destruction.

Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

Copy individuals who are weird.

The big difference between a friend and an inventor is that an inventor works.

If you draw, if you dance, if you like poetry, if you like spoken word, whatever, if you like polka dots—use who you are, who you really are, as a positive. That's your superpower. Wendy

Acting in its purest form is an urge from deep in the human psyche to celebrate our aliveness, to act our dreams and fantasies in a public display of our most private selves.

Too much conscious mind mucks up the artist's natural creativity.

If you draw, if you dance, if you like poetry, if you like spoken word, whatever, if you like polka dots—use who you are, who you really are, as a positive. That's your superpower.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

Genius has its limitations. Insanity, not so much.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.

George and Harold were usually responsible kids. Whenever anything bad happened, George and Harold were usually responsible.

It's YOUR story, kid. You can color it any way you want.

Only one thing can help us now," said George. "What?" asked Harold. "Rubber doggy doo-doo," said George.

Faultfinding is of little use and scant profit, for it is the mark of a shameless mind to prefer the role of the censorious critic to that of the creative poet. —FROM COPERNICUS'S Letter Against Werner, JUNE 3, 1524

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.