Quotes About Creativity

Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.

My mother supported my every artistic ambition. I don't wonder why. I'm beyond grateful. But when I think of my grandparents barely surviving the war, I feel so pampered. What an indulgence to be an artist. So this is it, this is all I can offer, to the living and to the dead.

How can U say one style is better than another. You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you"ve given up something. ... I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene. - Andy Warhol, 1963

Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)

Whatever I did—whether I was writing or playing—there was blood on the pages, there was blood on the strings, because anything less than that was just bullshit, and a waste of fucking time.

p.35: Tom Peters. En un mundo de cambio rápido y aun explosivo, las compañías tienen que construir una organización comparativamente dinámica que REÚNA A LOS CLIENTES, EMPLEADOS Y SOCIOS ESTRATÉGICOS EN BUSCA DE RELACIONES, PRODUCTOS Y AMBIENTES DE TRABAJO QUE CREEN GRAN ENTUSIASMO, CREATIVIDAD Y SATISFACCIÓN.

Saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.

I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion.

An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea.

What promotes the power and pleasure of learning with and through materials? How can an atelier inspire and sustain creative, innovative thinking and learning throughout the school community? What kind of organization and interconnections among materials, spaces, people, and ideas do we need to invent in our North American context for poetic, expressive languages to flourish and to make the teaching and learning experience rich and whole?

People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?" [Interview in The Independent , 15 October 2005]

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

An apocryphal story — the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" — tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.

Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.

Composer" is a word which here means "a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is going to play." This is called composing. But last night, the Composer was not muttering. He was not humming. He was not moving, or even breathing. This is called decomposing.

I write storys to entertain not to be the best

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.

An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.

You're just jealous of me because I'm a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.