Quotes About Creativity

Thanks," said Walter. "My dad's an engineer. He knows how to take wacky ideas and actually make them work.

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Chris Grabenstein

Chris Grabenstein

It's your story," Kyle whispered back. "Take it where you want to go.

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CHRIS GRABENSTEIN is the coauthor (with James Patterson) of the number one New York Times bestseller I Funny.

Because," said Mr. Lemoncello, "it's a trampoline.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

According to Charles Olsen, the best poetry is a kind of schizophrenia. The poem does not "express" the poet's thoughts or feelings. It is "a transfer of energy between the poet and the reader".

But even so I can't stop writing even for a day--I'm doing it to save my life. These letters're the first time I've ever tried to talk about ideas because I need to, not just to amuse or entertain.

If women have failed to make "universal" art because we're trapped within the "personal," why not universalize the "personal" and make it the subject of our art?

Fuck her once, she'll write a book about it

Jerome doesn't have a clue. He in fact avoids the poets, with their petty feuds and righteous poverty. Endlessly competitive and introspective, they live in dumpy slum apartments and would knife each other for $5. Jerome prefers the painters and the film-makers who live in Soho and Tribeca. There's money there, at least the things they fight about are real.

If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.

continually exposing myself to whatever situation occurs… Gambling as well as gamboling… To exist instead of being an existentialist, to make objects instead of being one

Art supercedes what's personal.

Some of the ways we found creativity – the brainstorm, for instance – seemed completely counter-intuitive to where I knew my best ideas came from. These came (and still do come) in the quiet moments on my own, when I wasn't trying, like during long flights, cycling or the shower.

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

Los líderes imaginan un futuro inspirador y se esfuerzan por darle forma, en vez de permanecer pasivos a la espera de lo que traiga el futuro. Los héroes sacan oro de lo que tienen a mano en lugar de esperar a tener en la mano oportunidades de oro.

Los héroes sacan oro de lo que tienen a mano en lugar de esperar a tener en la mano oportunidades de oro.

That's the beauty of the text, I find. You can key in things you would never say, and it hardly hurts a bit.