Quotes About Creativity

Your imagination is your safe space, an escape pod to another dimension where you're free to be.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Any music comes from the inner mind and soul, reaching out to the unknown.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Aspiring novelists should be taught that the old adage, "Write about what you know," isn't limited to what you have personally experienced. Vicarious experience is also a great part of what you know. Read a lot of history and it becomes part of your store of knowledge, part of what you're prepared to write about. The same goes for stories and memories that other people share with you.

Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination

A highly structured, prescriptive model of sheltering and scaffolding is not necessary for effectively educating English learners. In fact, mandating any approach that allows for little deviation is likely to be counterproductive. Just as explicit instruction encourages passive learning, tightly scripted lessons encourage passive teaching.

Any attempt to fix it in place, to say for instance "this is the final word on what Moby Dick means" robs myth of its creativity and turns its ossified corpse into dogma.

You have the ingredients inside you to bake the cake you desire, Start Mixing!

The file cabinets in my head are never-ending rows of knowledge and creativity.

You cannot attempt to suggest much less try to explain this to normal people inside the box and is why I always throw in the monkey wrench option of doing it the social way

Do you know how it is to be locked in your mind, words and writing become your best friend.