Quotes About Creativity

What she really wants is a place with more tolerance for differences, less emphasis on materialism, where people value creativity and are interested in working on issues relating to peace and justice.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

It's a good thing you write fiction. If you had to describe the real world, nobody would recognize it.

whatever his circumstances and surroundings, it was only a dead imagination that could call him a failure.

I don't shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like doing that.

But you write what comes back to you, and then afterward it comes back to you all over again.

ARTISTIC CREATION is a voyage into the unknown.

Nevertheless, in every piece we write, we contemplate a world; and as that world would not otherwise exist, we create it even as we discover it.

daydreaming?

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

I am basically much more interested in what is happening inside the child than what the outside appearance is. I believe that forced conformity on the outside often heightens tensions on the inside. Originality should be allowed and even encouraged." p173 Roy Entwistle, 1973.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, William Shakespeare, and Michelangelo Buonarroti stand together at the peak of Western culture.

Rather than squeeze everybody into preordained roles, my goal has always been to foster an environment where the players can grow as individuals and express themselves creatively within a team structure.

Remember that scene in the first Indiana Jones movie when someone asks Indy what he's going to do next, and he replies, "I don't know, I'm making it up as we go along." That's how I view leadership. It's an act of controlled improvisation, a Thelonious Monk finger exercise, from one moment to the next.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. TULI KUPFERBERG

Quantum theory had the strangest genesis," Ball says. "Its pioneers made it up as they went along. What else could they do?

Scientists, according to [Francis] Bacon, should not be like ants, busy doing mindless practical tasks, nor like spiders, weaving tenuous philosophical webs, but like bees, mining nature for her goodness and using it to make useful things.

Creer que el genio conlleva estar libre de error es malinterpretar la naturaleza de la creatividad y el entendimiento.

Dane lived above a greengrocer's shop at 26 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, with her secretary, Olwen Bowen, herself a writer of children's books, but who now devoted herself to the care of her companion. 'One climbed up a rickety staircase and there was Winifred, surrounded by her paintings, sculptures, a piano and goodness knows how many books, where she would give many after-the-theatre parties . . .

For the unholy trinity of Bobs: Bloch, Heinlein, and Traurig— may I meet them on the banks of The River, where we'll board the fabulous Riverboat

As for paranoia, anyone who has the imagination to postulate all possibilities is automatically a paranoiac.

hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and enjoy it; joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.