Quotes About Creativity

They think schools stop you from learning,' I said. 'They think schools try to make everybody just the same.

My mother educates me, she said. We believe that schools inhibit the natural curiosity, creativity and intelligence of children. The mind needs to be opened out into the word, not shuttered down inside a gloomy classroom.

They climbed the wide stairways. Their footsteps echoed and echoed through the house. What on earth will you be doing with something so large? said Mum. I shall live in it with my servants, of course, said Mina. Or I shall establish a school. A school, my lady? Yes. A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

My name is Mina and I like the night. Everything is possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

But to hell with them. Let's give them something to infect their waking and fire their dreams.

Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line?

A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

Why should I write what they told me to write just because they told me to write it?

Amazingly, even in midst of trauma, people continue to smile, to love, to celebrate, to create, and to renew.

will paint in pleasing colors." "How do you know which colors to use?" I asked. "There are instructions for each item on your workstation.

She talked to herself as she wrote. Dark hair, about six four five, two-forty. Shoulders the size of Nebraska. Amazing blue eyes. She put down her pen. Amazing blue eyes?Where did that come from?

since a pen or pencil could easily be turned

Technically, I'm right up there, I think. But the really great artists have something—I don't think anyone can really quantify it—that I don't. But that's okay. I'm happy with

what I do have, and so are my clients." He took the piece he was carrying and set it up on an empty easel but did not uncover it.

You could have been a great scientist or something. Or a writer.

David Baldacci

If you can't live in the world you have, make one up.

stroke he imagined plunging

Americans do not inderstand that artists are different from ordinary people. This does not make them insane it makes them artists

Paradigms clearly involve, in a key way, the process of taking ideas and concepts for granted, without realizing that this is in fact going on. Since this process takes place as the mind attempts to defend itself against what it believes to be a severe disturbance, a paradigm tends to interfere with that free play of the mind that is essential for creativity. Instead it encourages the process of playing false, especially in deep and subtle areas.

What is essential here is that the act of creative perception in the form of a metaphor is basically similar in all these fields, in that it involves an extremely perceptive state of intense passion and high energy that dissolves the excessively rigidly held assumptions in the tacit infrastructure of commonly accepted knowledge.

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author, There is no authoritative active voice. There are only multiple readings.

The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.