Quotes About Creativity

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

You have nothing to lose but the chains of reality.

Making photos that are as capable as the human eye is a very big deal. And when using HDR, the extended dynamic range can even go beyond what the human eye can perceive, creating images that have never been possible before. This means that with your photos and HDR, the world can be seen in an entirely new way.

Picasso has been many times quoted as saying good artists copy, great artists steal.

I appreciate engineers, I wrote a book about their achievements, but I deprecate what they and other techies do to English words. Hey, these nouns and verbs aren't bits of silicon you can dope with chemicals (boron, phosphorus, and arsenic), drop into a kiln at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and slice and dice. Words breathe. They need TLC—you know

Unabashedly, Yokoi said, "The Nintendo way of adapting technology is not to look for the state of the art but to utilize mature technology that can be mass-produced cheaply.

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

What would music, art, poetry, or literature be without emotion?

They call it music, but it's just this side of magic.

A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed. This allows him to take stock of his circumstances with an objective mind. A creative person often gets three-dimensional answers to his problems. —

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

This is what it means to create: not to make something out of nothing, but to make order out of chaos. A creative scientist or historian does not make up facts but orders facts; he sees connections between them rather than seeing them as random data. A creative writer does not make up new words but arranges familiar words in patterns which say something fresh to us.

They say if you stare at a telecaster long enough, all your troubles will disappear Who the H*** says that? I do

When Halliburton expressed curiosity about this "inconceivable power," Bob took him into his room, showed him his "immense file of pictures," and gave him a lecture on visualization. Far from being impressed, Halliburton became convinced that "Irwin had no pre-imagination, none whatsoever. That was his whole problem. He could imitate things. He couldn't create things.

Art is the expression of the invisible by means of the visible

Love your imagination for it is the heart of your creativity.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

Een boek bestaat alleen uit woorden. En dat is het prachtige ervan. Het is misschien niet gemaakt van de stof waarvan dromen gemaakt zijn, maar wel van iets dat er vlak naast gelegen heeft.