Quotes About Creativity

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

When television came roaring in after the war they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why — television or radio. And there was this seven-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."

Distance is inspiration's best hearting.

Quarantini recipe — 2 parts whatever alcohol you have lying around and 1 part boredom

If you are a gardener, you can always put "Plant Manager" on your résumé.

Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.

nose in books, head in clouds

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.

I'm protesting adulthood— in my blanket fort, coloring.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

Life lesson from the nursery: Broken crayons can still color.

The handwriting on the wall means the grandchildren found the crayons.

I love crayons — especially new crayons with no broken tips. I love how they smell — and how smooth they feel between my fingers. I love imagining what marvelous pictures the crayons will create. But what I love most of all are the colors — so many colors.

My childhood smells like a box of Crayola crayons.

Sometimes, it is said we are dreamers. Well, the world needs dreamers. Sometimes out of these dreams come visions that materialize into great things.

When you dance to your own rhythm, Life taps its toes to your beat.

Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do.

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.

A bad day woodworking is better than a good day working.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.

Makeup and clothing and all that should be a fun way to be creative and express yourself. Just like in nature, where birds have all the colors. But instead, it's all focused on the aesthetics of being attractive to men. Even if you really don't think it is that, that's what we're doing.

It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters.