Quotes About Creativity

I'm a writer. Life is supposed to pass me by, while I watch it.

But sometimes, very occasionally, songs and books and films and pictures express who you are, perfectly. [...] This is me. I wanted to say when I read Tyler's rich, sad, lovely novel. I'm not a character, I'm nothing like the author, I haven't had the experiences she writes about. But even so, this is what I feel like, inside. This is what I would sound like, if I ever found my voice.

Songs undressed like that, without a stitch of Stratocaster on them, are scary – you have to work them out for yourself.

Mi genio, si se puede decir así, consiste en combinar un montón de cualidades medias en una representación compacta.

You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done.

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product. (I

It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humoured and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

My favourites are I Am Fuel, You Are Friends, Large-Hearted Boy, Aquarium Drunkard, When You Awake and Funky 16 Corners, among scores of others. (Some

My genius, if I can call it that, is to combine a whole load of averageness into one compact frame.

É possível que esse tipo de habilidade passe despercebido porque Smoke é apenas uma canção, do mesmo modo que Yesterday ou Something não eram apenas canções.

I libri, ammettiamolo, sono meglio di qualunque altra cosa. Se organizzassimo un campionato di fantaboxe culturale, schierando sul ring i libri contro il meglio che qualunque altra forma d'arte abbia da offrire, sulla distanza di quindici riprese…be', i libri vincerebbero praticamente sempre.

No one's stopping you, said Jess. But you've got to make it more interesting. That's why why we drift off and talk about biscuits.

This script was like a dish made from things you'd found in your larder and had to use up before they went off: a Welsh mountain, a casino, a blonde with a big bust.

La coerenza è l'estremo rifugio degli uomini privi di fantasia, sono intervenuto io. Ancora Wilde, non sapevo resistere.

Peter Medawar described a hypothesis as an imaginative leap into the unknown. Once the leap is taken, a hypothesis becomes an attempt to tell a story that is understandable in human terms.

Every person I have a conversation with now runs a chance of being fictionalized.

Although continual sound effects were common in VCS games, it is hard to produce anything that sounds like Western music on the machine. The frequencies that the TIA can generate miss most of the chromatic scale. When Garry Kitchen was working as a programmer for Activision, he went through and marked the notes that the Atari VCS could hit. He then asked a professional composer of jingles to put something together using only those notes.

That's the trick- is just as soon as you have an idea in life, do it and act on it. [...] Cause I can't tell you how many video ideas I've had die on the vine because I gave myself too long to think about them, and then overthought them; because the more time you put between you and working on an idea you have, the more opportunities you're giving yourself, giving your shit brain, to talk yourself out of it.

the evil Swarm, and the backstabbing Dolmasi, and the enigmatic Skiohra, and even the other two known alien races that humanity had never met, the Findiri and Quiassi, and Danny would make up names for the alien ships and descriptions of what the aliens looked like and how their ships— Dammit, stop daydreaming

You will start a band. You will start a magazine. You will start a family. You will finish nothing.

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!

Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.

A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. It didn't matter if I found the words, and more than that, I knew it would be impossible to find the right ones.