Quotes About Creativity

I used to make a nest in the closet of my bedroom with pillows and blankets and a flashlight and a book. My own tiny world, sacred and inviolate, where I could reign entirely at my own whim and discretion.

you think it's great, or at least important, or at least the best you can do, or at least the only thing you can do? You can't paint for the judgment of the future. I

It would be awful. It would be brilliant.

Harrison brought along a copy of a new record he was obsessed with, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. On only his second album, Dylan turned in an all-original breakout with meteors like "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." Lennon and McCartney sponged it up as only two songwriters could while they hammered out sound-track songs for their movie, which would begin filming in March.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

It's okay to make mistakes; just make new ones!

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.

When I was a kid, I would always say I would grow up and make comics. I was right about one of those things.

Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination.

Sometimes I have trouble sleeping. It's weird—I can feel exhausted but still, I just lie there wide awake, staring up into the dark with all sorts of ideas bombarding me like dead pelicans

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

From the beginning, Microsoft had proven the mantra that good artists copy but great artists steal. Its first operating system (MS-DOS) was actually a clone of CP/M, another operating system.* Microsoft Windows was a rip-off of the Apple Macintosh operating system; Microsoft Word and Excel were copies of Wordperfect and Lotus 1-2-3, respectively.

if everything is entrusted to a single mind, its inevitable subjective distortions will distort, if not altogether disable, the innovation process.

A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him,

The reason such prototypes are sustainable, however briefly, and ultimately important is not their capacity to do what the technology is meant to do; rather, their value is in exposing a working model to more minds that might muse upon it and imagine a more evolved version. And

Hollywood's content, AT&T's lines, and Apple's gorgeous machines—an information paradise of sorts, succeeding

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

Black innovators were the force behind a burst of cultural creativity, from the poetry of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance to the crossover dance craze of the Charleston to jazz, the soundtrack of the age—"the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile," as Hughes called it.

Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn their trade, to understand nuance and pace. And then, facing a sea of rejections, they hear about something like Barbara Bush's dog getting a book deal.

Good pictures, Curtis explained, are not products of chance, but come from long hours of study.

Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences." Kevin Kelly

Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.

What problem do you face every day that nobody has solved yet?" or "What is a great company no one has started?" I will

All those artists and writers who bemoan how hard the work is, and oh, how tedious the creative process, and oh, what a tortured genius they are. Don't buy into it. . . . As if difficulty and struggle and torture somehow confer seriousness upon your chosen work. Doing great work simply because you love it, sounds, in our culture, somehow flimsy, and that's a failing of our culture, not of the choice of work that artists make." This