Quotes About Creativity

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories

Innovation requires, above all else, a willingness to embrace chaos.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

Mad Matter: "Have I gone mad?" Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

For some of us, Halloween is everyday.

People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

Half the fun is plan to plan

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing...

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

What good does it do to have led in the old pencil when there's nothing to write on?

Imagination is like muscle. If you don't exercise it, it shrinks.

The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination.

I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.

What kind of lists?" "You know: best of, worst of, one hundred reasons why making lists prevents you from doing something meaningful. Let's start

Courage is the ability to suspend the imagination.

The Roman Empire invented snacks, right after the aqueducts. Irrigation flowed, food plentiful, people munching between meals in the city-states. They ate these little, sun-dried meaty things, highly distasteful and falling out of favor until olive oil. I just made all that up. The key to life is making shit up. Everyone does it or society would unravel, like, Gee, your hair looks great! Or: God told me you're wrong

These rare gray afternoons evoke a sweet, childhood melancholy in my soul, like when it rained in kindergarten and we had to stay inside and do crafts with library paste and pipe cleaners and buttons, and I made the best project in the whole class, an ultra-powerful rubber-band zip gun, but the teacher gave me a zero because I got her in the eye with a button.