Quotes About Creativity

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

We had incense and rock'n'roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going.

I don't direct movies for a living.

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.

consider the seemingly impossible possibilities. Stop

Even though Beethoven wrote this song when he was depressed about his hearing and was sleeping around with girls, it sounds like a happy song. Bright with... Youthful joy... Lightning...

As a certain philosopher of ancient Greece once put it, the difference between the historian and poet/storyteller is that where the historian relates what happened, the storyteller tells us how it might have come about.

And she wanted to answer Ruby, wanted to say something intelligible and calm and hip and funny so the work could take precedence again. But the words got caught in the grind of her back teeth as she shred silk and canvas and paper and hair. The rip and shriek of silk prying her teeth apart. And it all came out a growling.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation." ? Toni Cade Bambara, born #OTD in 1939

Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.

You're right. I don't need them in front of me, Sis. But, as each tree is different, so is each branch and leaf and flower. What I'm painting this afternoon can't be painted again. They're all different. Once this flower dies there won't be another quite the same.

Soy lo suficientemente artista para dibujar libremente con mi imaginación. La imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento. El conocimiento es limitado. La imaginación abarca el mundo".

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

Everything was better when I was imagining it. Real things are complicated.

the world in silver and copper and iron." Simon crawled to the edge of the cage. "That doesn't make any sense. What are you going to eat? How are you going to breathe without plants to make oxygen?

Who else is going to create the next great stories for kids to read?

Never abandon imagination

You have to know human behaviour… And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You'll never write above what you know about people.