Quotes About Creativity

So "borrow" an idea from someone you admire—an idea that really appeals to you personally.

learning from something or someone you admire is not stealing. It's called "being influenced by.

The general principle is this: the bigger the leap, the longer the creative period is likely to be.

creativity plummets. This is because they think they have nothing more to learn.

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. —Milton Glaser

Probablemente piensa que lo mismo les sucede a los artistas en general, a los artistas masculinos, que no están hechos para lo que llamo amor; que no pueden entregarse del todo, o no están dispuestos a hacerlo, por la sencilla razón de que tienen una esencia secreta que han de preservar por el bien de su arte.

I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.

After all the investigation, all of the technique-doesn't matter! Only if the feeling is right.

There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state. So that we can see more and more clearly what we are. In that way, we can give to those who listen the essence, the best of what we are. But to do that at each stage, we have to keep on cleaning the mirror.

Favorite Things' is my favorite piece of all those I have recorded.

Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . That Is what I would like to do. I think that Is one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musicians is through his music

All inventions,' he thought, 'come from man's brains. And man's soul can escape from them, and even while using them, treat them with contempt – treat them as if they were not! It

The best part about growing up with no money is that you know how to have fun without it.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Sadness is the best teacher to build a best writer.

Trust that little voice in your head that says Wouldnt it be interesting if..; And then do it.

Children are the Shades of both mother and father, whether poor or rich every one had a wonderful creative life growing up with them.

Writers will happen in the best of families

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.