Quotes About Creativity

I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles, if I had to. The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy.

My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy.

Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.

Cunt would be a good flavor of ice cream, Sealtest ought to work on it.

We weren't idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with the highest kind of ambition — not to get rich or to impress women, but to make our mark as Proust and Joyce had made their mark.

But feeling down can make you feel up if you're the creative type. The emotional damage may have already been done to you, but stop whining. Use your insanity to get ahead.

Go out in the world and fuck it up beautifully.

It wasn't until I started reading ... that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

It's always up to other people to say if something is art. I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work.

Fantasies are like extra cash. They need to be banked for later use.

As soon as you stop listening to new music, your life is over. You are a fart.

How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder.

John Waters Summer Camp

talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative.

Make each day your masterpiece.

Make each day a masterpiece.

Make Every Day Your Masterpiece!

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

To compose poetry is about listening, ...not to contrive, it is, so to speak, about bringing forth something that already exists-this is why when one reads great poetry, when often gets this 'I-new-all-of-this-already, I-just-didn't-express-it' feeling. Language listens to itself.

what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in it...

one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often than not the picture'll be ruined...

what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in it..." ? Jon Fosse

known. If you are completely preoccupied with what is already known, you can't make the leap into that other dimension of creativity or imagination or poetry, or whatever it is that allows for seeing a hidden order in things which, until it is seen and realized, it isn't seen at all.