Quotes About Creativity

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

There are no radical creative choices that do not carry with them an inherent risk of equally radical failure. You cannot do anything great without aggressively courting your own limits and the limits of your ideas.

Even if you consider yourself a terrible writer, writing can be viewed as a tool. There are huge benefits to writing, even if no one—yourself included—ever reads what you write. In other words, the process matters more than the product.

Neal Gabler's biography of Walt Disney.

Language is infinitely expansive (much like cooking) and therefore horribly overwhelming if unfiltered.

Like Chuck Close says, 'Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will—through work—bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great 'art idea.

I think we need to teach kids two things: 1) how to lead, and 2) how to solve interesting problems. Because the fact is, there are plenty of countries on Earth where there are people who are willing to be obedient and work harder for less money than us.

You do not have to sacrifice the integrity of your art for a respectable income. You just need to create a great experience and charge enough.

One of the best pieces of advice I've received for writing was a mantra: "Two crappy pages per day.

Truth is, young creative minds don't need more ideas, they need to take more responsibility with the ideas they've already got.

En otras palabras, descubrir oportunidades para favorecer la creatividad de los demás, localizar salidas y personas para establecer una colaboración y eliminar distracciones que entorpezcan su progreso y concentración.

Circulation, de Beats Antique y Black Out the Sun, de Sevendust, dependiendo de si necesito fluir o activarme.

So the goal isn't to get good ideas; the goal is to get bad ideas. Because once you get enough bad ideas, then some good ones have to show up.

There is always constant pressure to conform. But originality only happens on the edges of reality.

Leer, después de una cierta edad, distrae demasiado a la mente de su actividad creativa. Cualquiera que lea demasiado y utilice poco su propio cerebro cae en hábitos de pereza mental.» ALBERT EINSTEIN

When people say: 'You do so many things. You're a musician, you're a painter, you're a composer, you're a cinematographer, you're the editor. You do so many different things.' I go, 'No, I only do one thing. I live a creative life. When you put creativity in everything, everything becomes available to you.' .

Álbum para «fluir»: «Gran Hotel Buenos Aires», de Federico Aubele.

La magia es que poca gente sabe dibujar bien y escribir chistes.

Too often, aspiring artists put pressure on themselves to make their creative work their only source of income. In my experience, it's a road to misery. If art is your sole source of income, then there's unrelenting pressure on that art, and mercenary pressure is the enemy of the creative elves inside you trying to get the work done.

the importance of creating large, uninterrupted blocks of time, during which your mind can wander, ponder, and find the signal amidst the noise. If you're lucky, it might even create a signal, or connect two signals (core ideas) that have never shaken hands before.

If you think about something more than three times a week, you have to write about it.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. —OSCAR WILDE, Irish dramatist and novelist

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." –Oscar Wilde

Si produces bastantes ideas malas, se te ocurrirán algunas buenas «La gente con dificultades para tener buenas ideas, si te cuenta la verdad, te dirá que tampoco tiene muchas ideas malas.