Quotes About Creativity

When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it ensures your integrity.

Escribir es defender la soledad en que se está; es una acción que sólo brota desde un aislamiento efectivo, pero desde un aislamiento comunicable, en que, precisamente, por la lejanía de toda cosa concreta se hace posible un descubrimiento de relaciones entre ellas. Pero es una soledad que necesita ser defendida, que es lo mismo que necesitar de justificación. El escritor defiende su soledad, mostrando lo que en ella y únicamente en ella, encuentra.

Lo que diferencia a los géneros literarios unos de otros, es la necesidad de la vida que les ha dado origen. No se escribe ciertamente por necesidades literarias, sino por necesidad que la vida tiene de expresarse.

In partnership, the result is harmony, respect, love, and an explosion of creativity and joy.

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

talent, in both cases, is greatest when it coincides with a taste for truth—which, in short, is comforting.

My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep people fulfilled and happy. I wanted the people who built salesforce.com to be inspired and to feel valued.

Let us guard against stripping our science of its share of poetry.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

In 1991, while talking with writer Ed Gross, Fred Freiberger summed up his agony over Star Trek with a joke, saying, "I thought the worst experience of my life was when I was shot down over Nazi Germany. A Jewish boy from the Bronx parachuted in to the middle of 80 million Nazis. Then I joined Star Trek. I was only in a prison camp for two years, but my travail with Star Trek has lasted 25 years ... and still counting.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a work to be made, and that work may well utilize much raw material we would prefer to do without.

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

Det var fullt mulig å være personlig selv om du hadde fem andre musikere i ryggen.

Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.

Write like yourself, only more so.

He responded with a tale about how, after spending hours in late 1937 queuing at a Jersey City pier to unload his truck, he realized that it would be quicker simply to hoist the entire truck body on board. From this incident, we are meant to believe, came his decision eighteen years later to buy a war-surplus tanker and equip it to carry 33-foot-long containers.

People think writing is an easy job, and in some ways it is. Flexible hours, no boss, no real structure . . . but working without any structure is a bit like sailing a boat in the middle of the ocean. All it takes is an unexpected wave and you're dead in the water.

At night, Paul became part of an imaginary world where he felt happy, in the company of characters who had become his friends. When he was writing, anything was possible.

Hélas, certaines personnes sont plus attachées au respect des règlements qu'à l'intelligence de s'y dérober parfois. C'est fou comme les réglementations rassurent ceux qui manquent d'imagination.

Is it the freedom of characters in fiction that we find so inspiring, or the way that freedom transforms them?

Du känner till det där med yin och yang, och krona eller klave? Du kommer snart att fatta vart jag vill komma. Vet du att de två pajasarna som uppfann föregångaren till mobilen du har i handen började i ett garage där de använde sig av defekta komponenter från skroten på en stor flygindustri? Var de lumpsamlare eller genier?