Quotes About Creativity

All I want to be is normally insane.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Y cantamos canciones que nos inventamos cuando dormimos y que dicen que si subes como la espuma te caerás desde las alturas.

I don't really care what other people think about art, sir. Either you get it or you don't, and it seems pretty stupid waiting on people to get it when you could just as easily enjoy having more museum space to yourself, thank to one less idiot telling me how his four-year-old daughter could do that.

The fishes had the head, arms, and breasts of women.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.

Don't do anything that isn't play!

When our consciousness is focused on what we need, we are naturally stimulated toward creative possibilities for how to get that need met. In contrast, the moralistic judgements we use when blaming ourselves tend to obscure such possibilities and perpetuate a state of self-punishment.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Art is anything you can get away with.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Artist in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

The poet's house was a city of glass:

You said: There's a lot of places out there, friend, so you would go, smuggling a suitcase of words across every border carved by the heel of mapmakers or conquerors, because you had an all-night conversation with the world, hearing the beat of unsung poems in every voice, visiting the haunted rooms in every face. Drive, you said, because poets must bring the news to the next town: You got a song, man, sing it. You got a bell, man, ring it.

I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.

escribir siempre sería una renuncia. Un exilio. Una manera de fingir que uno sale al encuentro del otro cuando en realidad rumia, digiere, regurgita, mastica, relame, traga, se nutre, defeca sus propias e intransferibles palabras...

tal vez, las cosas que nos mueven a hablar son las únicas cosas sobre las que merece la pena escribir.

If you let it be known that you are a poet, you will be sent to the police station.

I am also struck by how much the poet knew her own mind, both in terms of her need for solitude and what she hoped to achieve in her work.