Quotes About Creativity

You've been singing on your own all along Writing records in your room since 15 Drama queen Well you're older now it seems

But artists love what is forbidden to them, a fact I learned too young; too early.

I wish I had 11 hands with 55 fingers so I could paint and write and fuck and feed and grab grab grab everything. I. Want. It. All. It must be mine.

Art involves forgetfulness of immediate ends; complete surrender to the inward impulse to give form to the beautiful idea or image of truth because it is beautiful.

There are few chapters in the biography of the childhood of men of genius more significant than those which describe imaginary worlds which were, for a time, as real as the actual world in which the boy lived.

Ideas are no one's monopoly - Dhirubhai Ambani

La necesidad constante de ser algo diferente es lo más valioso que tenemos... ésa es la esencia de la pasión. Sin ella, sin pedido al cielo, comenzamos a envejecer, a repetir, a no arriesgar... a morir lentamente.

All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

Gaiman wrote the first draft in fountain pen, in several five-hundred-page, leather-bound sketchbooks that he purchased in a close-out sale. "I really wanted a second draft," says the author. "It's my experience with computers that they do not give you a second draft. Computers give you an ongoing, ever-improving first draft.

Latin texts and "tried on" various nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, inventing new ones along the way; in the process he would have acquired his vocabulary of some 25,000 words, more than twice the size of the one possessed by John Milton.

I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Pinky Fein, a friend of Oscar's, owns the Gilded Lily, a four-star Midtown restaurant renowned for its beggar purses- paper-thin crepes filled with créme fraîche and Beluga caviar, tied into small bundles with chives, lightly sprayed with edible gold leaf, and presented like candles in a candelabra.

He lik'd those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's graces, By plucking bon-mots from their places...

games are an extension of our imagination

Meinst du, es gäbe nichts außer dem, was du dir vorstellen kannst?

Each little princess had her own little plot of garden where she could dig and plant just as she liked. One made her flower-bed in the shape of a whale, another thought it nice to have hers like a little mermaid; but the youngest made hers quite round like the sun, and she would only have flowers of a rosy hue like its beams.

Everything you look at can be turned into a story ... you can make a tale of everything you touch.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

You are a dreamer, and that is your misfortune.

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

I was once again gripped by the old familiar passion; I wrote without looking up, nor did I look round either - neither to the left, nor to the right.