Quotes About Creativity

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

For Winnicott, the "transitional space" between the internal world and "reality" becomes a space for creative play and imagination

Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

as if I'd said I wanted to sell cheese sandwiches outside Grateful Dead concerts...

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

Tijd heeft geen betekenis op een schilderij. Als het goed is tenminste.' 'En op foto's?' vroeg Vogels. 'De meeste foto's hebben een rouwrand. Heden overleed. Een goed schilderij is net als een stem op een band. Altijd nu, in het heden. Maar wat lul ik, ik fotografeer nauwelijks nog.

In de taal zit een vrijheid verborgen waar de censor niet bij kan. Al onze schrijvers kennen dat geheim.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

the first rule of art is exclusion: knowing what to leave out.

If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's writing always appealed to me: he took outlandish ideas and made them seem completely within the realm of possibility. I remember reading "Jurassic Park" and feeling like: "Oh, yeah -- no, that's totally happening right now. They're bringing back dinosaurs!"

I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.

I'm working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make sure no one could see what I was doing. It seems rather extreme.

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.

Every once in a while, you are on the set and you look at it from the outside and you are like, "This is ridiculous."

The comedy that George Lucas put into Star Wars kind of was, for me, the thing that made me love the movie.

The most exciting thing for me is crossing that bridge between something we know is real and something that is extraordinary. The thing for me has always been how you cross that bridge.