Quotes About Creativity

Glasgow is a magnificent city," said McAlpin. "Why do we hardly ever notice that?" "Because nobody imagines living here…think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

Dear God I am tired. It is late. Writing like Shakespeare is hard work for a woman with a cracked head who cannot spell properly.

What satisfaction do you, personally, get from being a writer?" Lanark tried to remember. He said, "It's the only disciplined work I remember trying. I sleep better for it.

I'm afraid you'll have to take up art. Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.

Anus-thing is possible.

Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and draft again.

the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.

But without fallibility there is no art. And without art there is no truth.

Just because it came from the heart didn't make it good.

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

Some people get it. Most people never will. But that's art.

So the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.

Still, it was vision, or at least vision's idiot cousin.

But one of the truly delightful things about science fiction is that it is far less about new ideas than it is about finding new ways to think about old ones.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

Creative instinct is personal.

I always say that my music is my diary. It's very personal to me.

I believe all of us should have the freedom to have our personal take on how art affects us.

I've always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of what looks nice, which definitely isn't everyone else's.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.