Quotes About Creativity

When I was younger I wanted to be a caricaturist. In the end, I've become a caricature.

A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

Así corno en las religiones vemos al hombre esclavizado por las criaturas de su propio cerebro, en la producción capitalista le vemos esclavizado por los productos de su propio brazo.9

The write must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money

Maybe this is how Michael Jackson came up with his moonwalk. Maybe he was acting out a time when he stepped in dogshit and tried to get it off his shoes.

This is the problem with inventing. Virtually everything has been done already. These days most things are just the same things but tweaked. Everything is 'new and improved'.

Katrai gr?matai ir dv?sele - t? cilv?ka dv?sele, kurš gr?matu sarakst?jis, un to cilv?ku dv?seles, kuri gr?matu las?juši un kop? ar to sap?ojuši.

PLAY IS MORE POWERFUL THAN LOVE." ~ Patch Adams, MD

Did God get out of bed one morning and draw back the curtains (Reggie's imaginary God led a very domesticated life) and think, 'A drowning in a hotel swimming pool, I fancy. We haven't had that one in a while.

Personally, I don't think it right to make up things about real people—although I suppose there's an argument for saying that once you're dead you're not real any more. But then we have to define what we mean by real and none of us wants to go down that tortuous path because we all know where it leads (madness or a first-class honours, or both).

The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself." SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD

Parenting is like writing, most people just make it up as they go along.

She could have started up a branch library (or a spectacular house fire)

I myself am usually to be found lying on the bed imitating the dead Chatterton, killing time by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds i´ve discovered so far).

And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!

We could buy a sewing machine and share it," Charlene said. "We could buy cloth and spools of thread and paper patterns and spend pleasant winter evenings dressmaking together. Perhaps by the soft light from beautiful glass oil lamps. We could sit in a pool of golden light from the beautiful glass oil lamps and our silver needles would glimmer and flash as we bowed our heads to the simple yet honest work." But

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you'll never see the same show twice, because I don't like to be robotic onstage. I like to perform for that particular audience.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.