Quotes About Creativity

If you define your personality as creative, it only means you understand what is perceived to be creative by the world at large, so you're really just following a rote creative template. That's the opposite of creativity. Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time. But ANYWAY...

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don't really "need" anything new, so we only create what we want.

What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock.

What music means is almost completely dependent on the people who sell it and the people who buy it, not the people who make it. Our greatest artists are the ones who understand how they can be interesting and unique within those limitations.

the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.

An author I know once explained why writing became so much more difficult in the twenty-first century: "The biggest problem in my life," he said, "is that my work machine is also my pornography delivery machine.

In a roundabout way, Boba Fett created Pearl Jam.

I've obliterated three days trying to come up with an elegant way to write what I'm about to write, but I think the least elegant way is probably best: I like Kanye West.

Not all crazy people are brilliant, but almost all brilliant people are crazy.

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary.

What Tarantino could express, more explicitly than any of his peers, was the intensity of his own perspective.

My imagination has problems with plot mechanics.

Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who's exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is as boring as shit.

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a real artist.