Quotes About Creativity

Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit.

I move easily between the four seasons — dance-painting my planting songs. dance-painting my gardening songs. dance-painting my harvesting songs. dance-painting my quiet winter listening songs.

Spring is a lover Summer, a partier Autumn, an artist Winter, a philosopher

I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.

But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Sometimes I do a little mental skipping, just to shake things up in my mind.

The only cure for writer's block is insomnia.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.

He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in a good direction. I tried to imitate him. But I've realized that it's very difficult to make good mistakes.

While writing a novel about those who have lost their memories, he himself begins to lose his memory… He rushes to finish it before he forgets what he was writing.

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

Dasjenige aber nur allein ist fruchtbar, was der Einbildungskraft freies Spiel läßt. Je mehr wir sehen, desto mehr müssen wir hinzu denken können.

I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.

I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you

I like fairy tales, and I like dreaming. I try to weave the reality into the dream.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

They offer penetrating insights into the decay of industrial society, a place where big capitalism has lost all sense of creativity but retains all of its destructive capacities