Quotes About Creativity

The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.

La oración y la imaginación son directamente proporcionales entre sí;

La fecha de nuestra muerte no es la fecha que escriben en la lápida de nuestro sepulcro. El día en que dejemos de soñar, es el día en que comenzaremos a morir. Cuando sacrificamos la imaginación en el altar de la lógica, le robamos a Dios la gloria que le pertenece a él con todo derecho.

the best brass bands and popular American and British singers the Philippines could imitate.

Different is liberating. Who the hell would want to be the same as everyone else?

Teach a cook a recipe and he'll cook for a night; teach a cook a technique and she'll improvise for a lifetime.

First you follow recipes to the letter; then you begin to synthesize some of those recipes, comparing one with another and drawing on what you see as the best of them; then you develop a repertoire of recipes you've made your own. Finally you throw away the books, start shopping, open the refrigerator, and cook. You cook like a grandmother, or like anyone with experience.

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

The central argument is not that higher education is all wrong, but that it is only half right. Our predominant pedagogical system — rational, hierarchical, individualistic, and well-ordered — often ignores aspects of the self relating to emotion, mischievous subversion, social engagement, and creative disorder.

There is no such thing as a perfect drawing, especially if you're ametur.

What really matters is not the pencil but the brain of the person holding it.

Say what you see and you experience yourself through your style of seeing and saying.

As great poets do, he found a way to transmute the personal wound into something larger.

Poetry exists to find words for what resists easy naming; we are most often driven to write it or read it when any other sort of language seems incapable of the work required.

The life of the poem might be extended in ways you cannot know, and continue in a world so far from yours as to be nearly unimaginable. The circle that is the outer edge of your life extends, and goes on extending.

It thrills me that I don't know why; the fact that poems do things they should not be able to do, through means not fully apprehensible--well, it makes me treasure them all the harder.

This lack of support is not simply an absence of encouragement. It can be as deep as the outright denial of some particular way in which we want to express ourselves.

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Any one of us could have come up with such a sentence. We are, when it comes right down to it, all of us: mere monkeys at typewriters.

We are, when it comes right down to it, all of us: mere monkeys at typewriters. (...) low order primate elevated to high order ecclesiastical primate, elevated still further in these darkest last days to ultimate prime A grade superior being. For doing that, which my father did without thinking.

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Rock & roll isn't even music really. It's a mistreating of instruments to get feelings over.