Quotes About Creativity

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

Nunca hay que escribir con la concha

uno debería escribir en la lengua con la que piensa, con la que sueña.

Sometimes you read something and a thought that was floating around in your veins organizes itself into the sentence that reflects it.

underscore the difficulty inherent in any attempt by black artists to metabolize real rage.

As a poet, I want to use language to enter that space of feeling." —

It is surely gratuitous to point out that the author suffered from an edifice complex (writing of Ayn Rand)

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

He [Mihaly Babits] hoped that some god might offer a bed to the river of words which rose to his lips, so that it might flow between ordered banks to the sea, there to vanish.

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

The poet wants to 'say' something. Why, then, doesn't he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through his metaphors? Through his metaphors, he risks saying it partially and obscurely, and risks saying nothing at all. But the risk must be taken, for direct statement leads to abstraction and threatens to take us out of poetry altogether.

We are drawn to the Renaissance because of the hope for black uplift and interracial empathy that it embodied and because there is a certain element of romanticism associated with the era's creativity, its seemingly larger than life heroes and heroines, and its most brilliantly lit terrain, Harlem, USA.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

The perfect tattoo... the one I believe we are all struggling toward... is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra.

Einstein created an unstoppable "intellectual chain reaction," an avalanche of pulsing, chattering neurons and memes that will ring for an eternity

As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be no skulls

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

buzz in his head was wonderfully liberating,

I know you read very widely. Almost like cultural foraging.

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

No one knows why we do it and when we've done it rarely does anyone want it. Yet still we do it. That's what being a writer is.