Quotes About Creativity

Creativity implies deviance from past procedure. Habits are consistent with it. Habits often destroy creative ideas before they see the light of day. Habits include conceptual blocks, which not only occur because of the mechanisms of our limited brains but also are imparted by socialization, education, and professional specialization. Creativity requires System 2 thinking and more work for your mind.

Lawrence S. Kubie's book Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

If you're wired a certain way, you'll always be in morion, clicking to your own rhythm, all of it in four-four time, avoiding convention and predictability and control as you would a sickness, the whole world waiting for you like an enormous dance pavilion lit by colored lights and surrounded with palm trees. I'm not talking about the dirty boogie. The music of the spheres is right outside your bedroom window.

Shakespeare said that all power lies in the world of dreams, and I believe him.

There is no more grand moment in a writer's life than typing the first sentence of a new book.

Penelope Balangie's tom-toms. For a minute or two I thought my magic twanger was shifting into overdrive.

I hope you enjoy Wayfaring Stranger. It's the best book and the most biographical one I have written.

when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets.

Nothing wrong with being crazy. It gives you a more interesting view.

You are far too stolid and unimaginative, Watson, to invent a tale like that.

One, for instance, boasted a lovingly detailed watercolour of a dead robin, while on another a row of comical frogs paraded beneath umbrellas and, on another still, insects danced in a circle, wielding musical instruments and seemingly drunk.

Artists. If the Emperor has his way, you'll be the first ones targeted for eradication.

You damned, silly-looking cluck, are you trying to drive me insane? Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Yes, I could write music. I can write you a motet, or a sonata, or a waltz, or a cornet solo, with variation—anything at all, anything you want. And not one note of it will be worth the match it would take to burn it. You think I'm hot stuff, don't you? You, lying there every day, dreaming about rainbows.

Yankee" in all three senses of the word: Americans; residents of northern states in particular; and New Englanders especially. Of 143 important inventions patented in the United States from 1790 to 1860, 93 percent came out of the free states and nearly half from New England alone—

The big break from the past may come when speech recognition software is perfected. At that point we'll be able to write simply by talking: Speak into your computer's recorder, and it'll do all the messy work of punctuation and spelling. This could result in the elimination of the keyboard, [Dennis] Baron speculates. 'We'd get back to oral composition--reinventing Homer.

writer or a musician, not knowing that it was possible

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm...

There was something wonderful, though, in doing useless work. You could turn it into a sort of art.

True poets lead no one unawares. It is nothing other than awareness that poets-that is, creators of all sorts-seek. They do not display their art so as to make it appear real; they display the real in a way that reveals it to be art.

What I need I carry in my head. Everything in that machine came from me. My fat burned into knowledge. My calories pedaled into data analysis -- The Calorie Man

El problema es que para cuando los profesores han acabado contigo, han arrasado completamente tu creatividad. Habla con los buenos estudiantes de «sobresaliente» y descubrirás que se han olvidado, en primer lugar, de porqué querían ser artistas. Todo lo que saben es reciclar la vieja basura rígida que aprendieron en la escuela.

do you ever have dirty thoughts about spongebob?