Quotes About Creativity

Then I say, "Let's go and brush our teeth." So Lola says, "But Charlie, I can't brush my teeth because somebody is using my tooth." "But who would use your toothbrush?" I ask. Lola says "I think that lion. I saw a lion with my toothbrush and now he's brushing his teeth with it." "But it isn't this your toothbrush Lola?" "Oh," says Lola, "he must be using yours.

The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy ' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.

I'd love to design bridal dresses.

I can often be found in an art museum. Mostly I like being in a museum because I find visual art both absorbing and disorienting. I don't know very much about painting. I have taken exactly one art history course, and I can't draw a credible stick figure. I like being in a space where my senses are stimulated, indeed swamped, and where I don't know enough to think my way out of the experience.

There is an elaborate North African mezuzah case that dates to sometime in the 1700s, and by the nineteenth century Jews in Russia, eastern Europe, and Morocco were shaping mezuzah cases out of silver, creating miniature arks and fish and other pretty symbols in which to house their slices of parchment.

Isabel is a very talented photographer," she says. "Indeed, I am! I like to take photographs of babies nestling in oversized teacups." I spear a pea with my fork and hold it up. "Or sometimes I dress them in little green pea costumes and arrange them as if they're peering out of gigantic pods.

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.

I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.

Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully!

The poop became a poop mountain; the pee became a pee ocean. And then somehow a Poop and Pee Airline was invented to fly travelers to Poop Mountain and Pee Ocean, although the code name for the airline was Dolphin Airlines, to keep the unsuspecting from being tipped off.

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

When you think about it, everything has been said before, in one way or another. It's only our experience of it that makes it new.

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven.

varied as religion, writing, mathematics, music and dance, horsemanship, martial arts, and

Prester John's letter was actually written by imaginative monks toiling in anonymity

Just as it was not necessary for Beethoven to know the science of the physical manufacture of the instruments in his orchestra in order for him to compose, it is not necessary for you to understand vortex based mathematics, fractal field theory, dodecahedrons, geometric solids, calculus, Fibonacci series, centripetal force, and quantum physics in order to become enlightened.

The creation of artificial realities is not much different from how people enjoy today's movies depicting life in Ancient Egypt, life during the Middle Ages, depiction of various wars, or life during the Renaissance.

No matter where you are in your life, you must do what you love, and fuck what anybody says about what you do. If you are an artist, maybe your 19th century romantic style is not what is popular now, but you might just discover that in ten years, everyone will pay whatever amount you ask for your paintings. Or, if you love the Impressionist movement, you might be the person who starts a Neo-Impressionism movement.

Aliens (intermediate programmers) are not creating computer games in the ordinary sense of the term. These games are more like works of art, improvisational theater, performance art, scientific and philosophic investigation and historical novels.

I am a trained classical pianist. I can play all the masters. I can improvise on the piano, as well as play a variety of styles of music. Yet, I cannot build a piano. Is it necessary for me to know how to build a piano to be a good musician?

One of the arts is creative writing and profound secrets are hidden in novels.