Quotes About Creativity

Writing with someone mitigates the intense loneliness.

I can't deny that it plays into my poetic fantasies to be an artist whose work isn't seen in his own country and is forced, because of injustice, to have his public abroad. Henry Miller comes to mind. D.H. Lawrence. James Joyce.

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but to pun on no less a maven than Blaise Pascal, "The art has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of.

Mrs. Vreeland always said, style, not fashion.

There were record albums: classical, jazz, popular, the Caedmon Poets.

You can tell from my movies; while some are entertaining, no idea I ever had is going to start any new religion.

by the Beckmann triptych and Louise Nevelson's dark black sculpture.

I wrote one single joke for Don Adams. Jonathan Winters needed nothing from anyone; he was simply a genius.

Goatley forms an acting group which performs avant-garde plays written in palindromes, but the group slowly peters out as the members start dying off of starvation.

I was obsessed with gangsters, baseball players, jazz musicians, and Bob Hope movies, but young women have been a tiny fraction of the women I dated over the decades. I have used the May-December ploy as a comic and romantic theme a few times, just as I have used psychoanalysis or murder or Jewish jokes, but only as good material for plots and laughs.

Sid had a cerebral band of writers, Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin, Lucille Kallen, Mike Stuart, Shelly Keller, Neil Simon, not to mention contributors like Carl Reiner, Howie Morris, and Sid himself.

Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off.

If you want to learn something, just steal it.

Then I got a little braver and made up songs telling what I thought was wrong and how to make it right, songs that said what everybody in the country was thinking. And this has held me ever since.

Hay un desprendimiento liberador en el acto de romper las hojas que uno ha escrito, acaso por haber notado en ellas la desnudez obscena de un par de sentimientos. Existe una soberbia mojigata remojada en pudores melancólicos detrás de la sospecha de que cuanto escribimos hace pocas semanas nos hace ver como unos cursis infumables: pornógrafos del sentimiento.

que esto de ser copy es lo más parecido a ser vedette: no eres así que digas bailarina, pero bailas; tampoco eres cantante, pero cantas; menos aún actriz, y sin embargo actúas.

lo único que me inspiran sus canciones melosas son unas ganas locas de mearles la guitarra.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

I felt I was beating a rainbow to death

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

If we citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the alter of crude reality, and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

If we, citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice out imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.