Quotes About Creativity

My interest does not lie in raising parrots that just rehash "their master's voice," but rather in passing the torch to "independent and inventive, innovative and creative spirits.

M]an not only finds his life meaningful through his deeds, his works, his creativity, but also through his experiences, his encountering what is true, good, and beautiful in the world, and, last but not least, his encounter with another, a fellow human being in his very uniqueness.

Right now I am thinking of writing another cookbook. All cookbooks have a gimmick, and mine will be that it contains recipes that I have invented and named after famous people. Some of them are: Brisket of Brynner (very lean meat) Carson Casserole (it's got everything on it) Barbecued Walters Marinated Maude Roasted Rhoda King King Curry (it will feed about eight thousand people) Fricassee of Fonzi Pickled Rickles Raquel Relish Leftovers à la Gabors

The story ends with a crack the actor Hans Conreid made on seeing my two hundred black and white pots. Said Hans, You're one actor no one will ever be able to say he hasn't got a pot to... End quote.

Les jeunes rêvent, souffrent et espèrent. Les meilleurs artistes sont le plus souvent des êtres jeunes qui sont plutôt malheureux en amour qu'heureux. L'amour est la racine de tout... on ne peut pas y échapper.

I was the first to bring the Muse into my country.

For you [muses] are divine, and you have the gifts of memory and story; but only the faintest echo of the great tale has come down to me

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

I have never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious.

Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

With some exceptions, the enemies of the future aim their attacks not at creativity itself but at the dynamic processes through which it is carried.

As we shape our stories, we shape ourselves.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.