Quotes About Creativity

Chaos was my philosophy. Oh, yeah. Have no rules. If people start to build fences around you, break out and do something else. You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.

Horizontal vision allows someone to assimilate and weave together seemingly unconnected bits of information. It allows an investigator to see what others do not see, and to make leaps of connectivity and creativity.

striving to replace it to some extent by this image. This is what the painter does, and the poet, the speculative

Horizontal vision allows someone to assimilate and weave together seemingly unconnected bits of information. It allows an investigator to see what others do not see, and to make leaps of connectivity and creativity. Probing vertically, going deeper and deeper into something, creates new information. Sometimes what one finds will shine brilliantly enough to illuminate the whole world.

At the top of the page is a photo of sunrise as seen from space, and in between are the words "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." Brand intended the photo as a way to describe living a life open to serendipity. As Jobs put it, "I have always wished that for myself.

Both the Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Club, which gave rise to several dozen companies that forged the personal computer industry—including Apple—emerged from the fertile ground that Raymond created.

Sometimes in a nervous frenzy I just fling words as if I were flinging mud at a wall. Blurt out, heave out, babble out something—anything—as a first draft.

Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep going. What is your next word?

For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.

Ideas are where you find them

Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of writing because it is praised in the classroom or otherwise carries appealing prestige, they are vastly increasing the risk inherent in taking up writing in the first place.

You find your lead, you build your structure, you are now free to write.

Since you may take a month, or ten months, or several years to turn one idea into a piece of writing

Education is great ... but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.