Quotes About Creativity

How would you react if you learned that a sad and beautiful poem that touched you deeply had been written by a computer?

Bad art, for Niemeyer, was not just that which promotes immorality, but, in an even deeper sense, promotes unreality—the fantasy that leaves us locked in private purgatories.

It was the invention in the music that was so striking —the will to create what had never been heard before, through vocal tricks, rhythmic shifts, pieces of sound that didn't logically follow one from the other, that didn't make musical or even emotional sense when looked at as pieces, but as a whole spoke a new language.

Just as Bob Dylan's true audience may be those who came before him, those he's trying not to dishonor when he sings their songs or makes those songs into new ones, it may be his true biography is his inhabiting of other lives.

Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fit it into their minds in all sorts of different ways.

Art doesn't explain itself.

Some forms of music spark the freedom of singers to say, in words or how words are sung, in pace, hesitation, timbre, shouts, or silences, what they most deeply and desperately want to say; other forms take it away.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

One man's daydreaming is another man's novel.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune.

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can't fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.

All geniuses die young.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does

I only write first editions.

Writing is a psychological process. It is the process of taking what is in your mind and sharing it with others.

Write a book, not the book.

Are you giving the same advice over and over and over again to clients, patients, pupils, interns or friends? If the answer is yes, you should probably write a book about whatever it is that you keep repeating.

You must make a clear distinction between your creative mode and your critical mode. The two are like water and oil, they do not mix.

Write until you have nothing left to say and then stop writing. Focus on content and quality rather than word count.

An author who rewrites his own work must essentially be two people. One is the free flowing uncritical writer who creates the bulk of the material—the other is the extremely critical editor whose aim it is to make the book as good as it can become.

You can't take it personally when something you have written sucks. Just delete it and write something else.

O mouths humanity seeks a new language Beyond the reach of grammarians.

The domain of the imagination is reality.