Quotes About Creativity

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

Le long sentier vers l'humanisation de l'humanité est éclairé par trois lumières : le désir de comprendre le monde (la science), de l'embellir (l'art) et d'aider les êtres vivants à vivre (l'empathie). Trois mots à retenir : « connaîtras », « créer », « compatir ».

Being an artist doesn't take much. Just everything you got. Which means of course that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it's no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it completely, I transcend all this gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.

Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if we are reaching anyone...

I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

Chesterton never achieves a great poem because his poems are compilations of statements not intensely felt but only intensely meant.

All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidiy is original.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

He picked up the fountain pen and clicked the top on and off a few times while he listened.

For ilka thing a man can be or think or dae Aye leaves a million mair unbeen, unthocht, undune.

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.

It was as though he had cut up the sky, melted down a flower garden, tossed in some jewels and made it into glass.

Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write

There is a part of me that wants to write, a part that wants to theorize, a part that wants to sculpt, a part that wants to teach... To force myself into a single role, to decide to be just on thing in life, would kill off large parts of me.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Literatuur wordt door zieken gemaakt. Wie gezond is, schrijft geen boeken.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

May you say the things I have tried to say long after I am not there to say them. G. B. Smith's words were a clear call to Ronald Tolkien to begin the great work that he had been meditating for some time, a grand and astonishing project with few parallels in the history of literature. He was going to create an entire mythology.

One writes such a story not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mould is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.