Quotes About Creativity

If you can't paint a man falling from a five story building before he hits the ground, you will never make a monumental painting.

They say that a director always makes the same film. I try to make, as François Truffaut said, the next film in opposition to the one that came before. I'm not sure if I succeed. To put it another way, I agree with the auteur theory, but I don't consider myself an auteur. I'm more of an artisan, a craftsman.

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societies, and one can do without such amenities as the telephone, a car, entertainment.

en esta noche en este mundo donde todo es posible salvo el poema

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.

I've been an improviser since I was in my twenties. There's really no failing in improv. You just go on to the next thing.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: Yourself.

If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

It isn't as easy as I thought. I suppose that's why Heffalumps hardly ever get caught.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.

Eric Raymond says, "Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to reuse.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting

If poetry is a circus, then the Big Tent we're under has to have room for a lot of different freak shows.

We made ourselves more acceptable to others in a variety of ways. Perhaps you learned that you could win approval by becoming more sensitive than the other boys. Maybe you learned that you could win approval by displaying a creativity that the other boys refused to show, or you learned to win approval by excelling at everything you did.