Quotes About Creativity

What separates Rand from Marx is that the latter saw the true flourishing of individual creativity as best accomplished through collaboration and association with others in a collective drive to abolish the barriers of scarcity and material necessity beyond which, Marx held, the true realm of individual freedom could begin.

Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry]

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

That Schmidt, he didn't have enough imagination for mathematics. Now he has become a poet. For that he had just enough.

I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

Neurotic obsessed suffering is essential for greatness.

Striving for perfection can get in the way during the early stages of the creative process.

Consciously or not, we feel and internalize what the space tells us about how to work. When you walk into most offices, the space tells you that it's meant for a group of people to work alone. Closed-off desks sprout off of lonely hallways, and in a few obligatory conference rooms a huge table ensures that people are safely separated from one another.

Saya percaya jika sebuah buku tidak berdampak pada penulisnya, buku tersebut tidak akan berdampak pada orang lain.

God doesn't repeat himself

If we can get this done, [Doom] is going to be the fucking coolest game that the planet Earth has ever fucking seen in its entire history!

They hacked all day. They even hacked naked; at the Taylor University computer lab, gamers stripped down for regular "skinny-hacking" parties.

Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.

healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

They defy gravity, as good books should.

The words just start to fall there. And I feel some satisfaction from that. I've never written just for myself. And I've never written for anyone else. I write for the release of it. For finding out what will be there when I am done.

This should be the most homoerotically charged baseball dance number since "I Don't Dance" in High School Musical 2.

You do not need to be writing or painting or sculpting in order to be creative. You must simply create.