Quotes About Creativity

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Little things like language don't get in the way of a really good fillum.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

They invent a howling theatrical language through which it becomes possible to express the grief of the whole world, a language understood by no one but the two of them.

A half-baked idea is okay as long as it's in the oven.

An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen.

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say.

The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the envelope.

The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Reality is for those who lack imagination

One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.

Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme

The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Fools copy proverbs

Never be afraid to try something new remember amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.

Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

Please don't fart about the art.

Realists don't fulfill their ambitions. There must be a dreamer in all of us.

Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.