Quotes About Creativity

for even the best artwork is a static thing of the eye alone, and words are by their nature linear.

En enorm klods af en bog med blanke sider, hvor ingenting og alting skulle stå.

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

But a man gifted with original thoughts and the power of expressing them, appears to be regarded by everyone in authority as much worse than the worst criminal, and all the 'jacks-in-office' unite to kick him to death if they can.

Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel

Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!

I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose.

Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a sort of social pariah.

Initially, I began writing myself into my favorite shows. I was a detective on 77 Sunset Strip, the missing Cartwright sibling they never talked about on Bonanza, and the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. before there was a Girl from U.N.C.L.E., not to mention an active participant in the serialized stories on The Mickey Mouse Club.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. Thomas Mann

If you believed to your core that everything really is figureoutable, what would you now do? What would you create or heal or transform or transcend? Who would you become?

Putting pen to paper is a mystical way to access your most profound truths.

It's never about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness.

The unexpected is the plight of innovation.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

You cannot write to save your soul. given up it drifts and does the singing.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

The idea is to make the ingredients sing, not a grand opera, but a jolly chanson.

Poems] train and exercise the imagination. Trained imaginations are what we need most at a time like this. That is what will enable us to reach across cultures and understand each other, to think of new models and modes of organization that might work better, and to wage peace, because the love of beauty is deeply related to the love of peace.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

imagine that it were given back to me to be the child who knew departure would be sweet, the boy who drew square-rigged ships, the girl who knew truck routes from ottawa to mexico, the me who found a door in latin verse and made a map out of hexameters.