Quotes About Creativity

In high school everyone thought I was kind of a freak. 'Rock Girl,' they'd call me. But around here people think it's okay. That's what's so cool about college, you know? You have a million kids doing all kinds of weird things here.

So often, as writers, we keep pressing ourselves against a wall. We know we're stuck. We know this direction isn't working. But stubbornness and pride keep us pushing in the same direction. In backing away from our original plan, we must have faith that the essence is there, but some radical departure must take place.--Writer's Digest

In a world where everyone wants black-and-white answers, Coyote finger paints in Technicolor.

Como decía Albert Einstein, «ningún problema importante puede ser resuelto desde el mismo nivel de pensamiento que lo generó».

La integración de los dos hemisferios supera las limitaciones con las que opera el hemisferio izquierdo y puede traer al mundo de la materia las posibilidades que solo está viendo el hemisferio derecho, que es el que conecta con el mundo del espíritu.

The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.

Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules. People think they are. They look as if they are. They say, "Do this, not this. Add this, not that." But, really, recipes are just suggestions that got written down.

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

El arte jamás deja de ser una mentira; cuando es verdad, ya no es arte y aburre, porque la realidad es solo un irremediable absurdo hastío.

El único problema sería, tal vez, que la alfarería se haga a corto plazo por computadora o por internet. O por robots. Que Dios (que no existe) nos asista».

Por eso las grandes obras de arte se han construido siempre alrededor del pecado. - Lo cual, en el fondo, significa construirlas alrededor de Dios. - Naturalmente, porque sin Dios el pecado no existe. Y se han construido alrededor del pecado, porque el pecado está prohibido y tiene castigo, y eso es lo estético: el conflicto entre la prohibición y la culpa. Mejor dicho, el arte es la chispa que resulta de frotar la prohibición con el castigo.

La música es un premio, un recurso, una victoria.

Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be." Mario Vargas Llosa

That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

I do believe most curators - maybe I'm only speaking for myself here - want to be artists on some level. Curators must have an innate interest in what an artist makes. And they certainly have their opinions and criticisms, and the always ask, "How would I have made this, or how would another artist make this?

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is why our stories are often wiser than we are.

Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

Some people anesthetized with booze; Woody wrote.

The thrill of seeing my words on a printed page has never faded. Now I've found my niche, my passion. I want to do this every day for the rest of my life.