Quotes About Creativity

Just kidding. That's really good, actually. I'm glad you weren't attacked by KillSims or Rodents of Unusual Size.

Great, we're all bloody inspired.

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.

And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening.

I had begun to suspect, however, that there is a poet—or a kind of poet—buried in every human being like Ariel in his tree, and that the people whom we are pleased to call poets are only those who have felt the need and contrived the means to release this spirit from its prison

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

I don't design down to a price.

When you say 'design ' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

Invention is often more about endurance and patient observation than brainwaves.

Stamina and determination along with creativity are needed in overcoming seemingly impossible difficulties in research and other challenges in life.

My tale is one of not being brilliant. I wasn't even trained as an engineer or scientist. I did, however, have the bloody-mindedness not to follow convention, to challenge experts and to ignore Doubting Thomases. I am also someone who is prepared to slog through prototype after prototype searching for the breakthrough. If a slow starter like me could succeed, surely this might encourage others.