Quotes About Creativity

Most people picture my dog with three heads, but that is wrong, wrong, wrong. He is way cooler than that. Some poets claimed he had fifty heads and some poets called him the "hundred-headed" beast. Others described him with not only multiple heads, but with a serpent's tail, a mane of snakes, and lion's paws. Whatever. I call him awesome.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Write with love, write with joy, and write with pride.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them.

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.

As I write, more and more of my cells are replaced by language. When they burn a writer's body, the smoke will be shaped llike letters.

If you saw my poems today, I hope you could see that I heard you even though you couldn't hear me. I have tried to write shorter + shorter + denser + denser + louder + louder poems. They have become so loud that each night I fold them into origamic cigarettes and smoke them so they'll blow away.

You may as well attempt to colonise the moon with white mice as publish a volume of poetry'.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.

Innovation is more attitude than skill.

I figure, if the mind just 'has' to be busy, why not make up happy shit?

Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.