Quotes About Creativity

BRAIN: A commodity as scarce as radium and more precious, used to fertilize ideas.

No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had was had by someone before you.

Let your working ideas go for a picnic — sometimes the fresh air and ant bites are just what they need. Many great ideas were bitten a little at the beginning.

Let your imagination take you wherever you want to be.

Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.

Trapped by reality, freed by imagination.

Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

...but I assure you that there are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor.

This little insect of the poets...

I take the music of language very seriously. Like a heartbeat, it exists right below consciousness — it animates and infuses your language with life.... A good sentence should sound good and feel good and roll comfortably off your tongue, not simply serve as a conveyor for ideas.

Slang is the illegitimate sister of Poetry.

Fill paper as you please with triangles and squares...

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Dawn is a friend of the muses.

F.B., "Notes of Music," 1848

He was one Who could not help it, for it was his nature To blossom into song, as 't is a tree's To leaf itself in April.

Art and composition tolerate no conventional fetters: mind and soul soar above them.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Mozart composed music of radiant vivacity, sparkle, and wit at times when he was crushed by neglect, debt, and the awful discouragement of living his whole life insufficiently compensated and recognized.

I'm one of those people, who when I draw birds I just draw flying mustaches.

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves.

Pseudonym: writing under a false name so that one may write more truly.

I keep my end tables full of needlework and quilting so I don't have to dust them.