Quotes About Creativity

If you're going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

Uzevši u obzir svoj ograni?eni umjetni?ki dar, zaklju?io sam da ?e biti najbolje ako naslikam stvari u jednostavnim geometrijskim oblicima. Stoga sam naslikao jednostavnu raketu s krilcima i Snjegulji?ino zrcalo s natpisom: »Sje?aš li se kad sam ti rekao da si najljepša? Lagao sam!«

I've often carried a crayon in my shirt pocket. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and I take another hit.

But engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK. Don't worry about resale value on the house.

It was a hot summer night, and I had the soundtrack to Disney's The Lion King blasting on my stereo. Tears actually began streaming down my face as I drove past the building. Here I was, the grown-up version of that wide-eyed eight-year-old at Disneyland. I had finally arrived. I was an Imagineer.

I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.

I had just two rules for their virtual reality worlds: No shooting violence and no pornography. I issued that decree mostly because those things have been done in computer games only about a zillion times, and I was looking for original thinking.

The reason we remember song lyrics more easily than poetry is that music is stored in the cleaner, mathematical side of our brains. Poetry is shoveled into the cluttered, creative side.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are

Daydreaming subverts the world.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

My creativity, no matter how poor, is for me a far better guide than all the knowledge with which my head has been crammed. In the night of Power, its glimmer keeps the enemy forces at bay.

Pour le pouvoir, l'ennemi numéro UN, c'est la créativité individuelle s'irradiant librement.

What is certain is that it is sheer madness a century later, when the economy of consumption is absorbing the economy of production and the exploitation of labour power is being subsumed by the exploitation of everyday creativity.

Thanks to the magic of the imagination, everything exists solely to be manipulated, caressed, broken apart, put back together or altered in any way I wish. Once the primacy of subjectivity is accepted the spell of things is broken. Started from other people, the search for the self is fruitless; we repeat the same futile gestures time after time. Started from oneself, on the other hand, actions are not repeated but rather revisited, corrected and fully realized.

Et comment instruirait-il les enfants qu'il a devant lui, l'éducateur qui n'est même plus capable de redevenir enfant en renaissant chaque jour à lui-même? Celui qui porte dans son cœur le cadavre de son enfance n'éduquera jamais que des âmes mortes.

the more rigidly constructed your game is, the more limited it will be.*

I wish all nations name their national airports after scientists and artists.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.