Quotes About Creativity

and it's the creation of Miss Virginia Rappe, a young woman who has lifted fashion designing to the plane of fine art.

Overnight our place was busting its seams with idiotics. Anything went, and every fool thing you might think of under the influence of hashish or a hangover went big. We were awash with pretty women, clowns, and storytellers who couldn't write. We made a million dollars so fast my fingers ached from trying to count.

So when she wasn't sleeping or just sitting and listening to the storm or tinkering at her workbench, she flew.

If you really want to get a job done, give it to a mutt like Joey. She didn't need no fish-and-rice, quinoa-and-chicken diet. She could do anything powered on Dr Pepper and Red Vines and look awesome doing it.

If everything we do and create is done to the best of our ability, then until we compare it to something else, how can it be anything less than great?

the power of imagination as the essence of our existence

We're creators—and even more than that, we're connected creators.

Okay, and I would suggest to you that understanding problems is just like shooting a picture of a child. You see the challenge better when you shift the angle, when you reframe it.

After that, Thomas had told her, he felt that Allander drew his inspiration from some source beyond Thomas's comprehension.

For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and a host of readers always offers the riches of stories, that we may be less deprived and disconsolate, and more human and humane; perhaps wiser, and kinder to ourselves and our brothers and other strangers.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

Surely I'd give it for a nipple a rubber Tacitus For a rattle bag of broken Bach records Tack Della Francesca all over its crib Sew the Greek alphabet on its bib And build for its playpen a roofless Parthenon

I feel very strongly that every artist has one central story to tell. The struggle is to tell and retell that story over and over again, visual form, and try to challenge that story. But at the core that story remains the same. It's like the defining story of who you are. -Gregory Crewdson, "Brief Encounters" http://www.gregorycrewdsonmovie.com/

There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitiveand getting away with itis far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.

The process of leading a team that has never worked together before to accomplish something that has never been done before in a given amount of time with a limited amount of money

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

Where would I be if not for your wild heart? I ask this not from love, but selfishly— how could I live? How could I make my art?

I entered the empty room. I sat on the floor and drew pictures all day. One day I held a picture against the bare wall: it was a window. Climbing through, I stood in a sloping field at dusk. As I began walking, night settled. Far ahead in the valley, I saw the lights of the village, and always at my back, I felt the white room swallowing what was passed. from "The Room," Selected and New Poems. (Wesleyan University Press, 1988)

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.