Quotes About Creativity

Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?

I don't want realism…. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic!… I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

All good art is an indiscretion.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

Children need fairy tales because they can see only black and white.

Faith in our own talent is the gravity, the force that keeps us in orbit around the potential of our own passions and ideas, even when we are temporarily marooned on the dark side of the moon.

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

use an item for its intended purpose. For example, do not just use a tablecloth for a table, make it a slip cover for your ottoman. It can save you lots of money and time when you purchase

I am an out of the box thinker, simply because I am claustrophobic.

Success is not being the best at what you do, it's reinventing the way it's done making it fresh, new and more efficient.

My hunch is that Sylvia Plath was not Especially fun company. A drama queen, thin-skinned, And skittery, she thought her poems were ordinary.

True poets might not so much sing about their love as love in order to sing.

A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time.

I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'

Clouds are the sky's imagination.

Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we?

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer.