Quotes About Creativity

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

The only sin is mediocrity.

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.

The unique must be fulfilled.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around deadlines. She set these various dates, she'd told him, to fool herself.

If I don't like the way something unfolds, I reimagine it the way I'd rather have seen it happen.Memory doesn't dictate truth.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

ART must be recovering because it had to butt in with, "Tell her you care about her. Use those words, don't tell her you'll eviscerate anything that tries to hurt her." "ART, fuck off.

It looked very unrealistic and inaccurate, which was exactly what I liked.

I could feel ART metaphorically clutch its function.

I know, I said, if the humans were dead, who would make the media? It was so outrageous, it sounded like something a human would say.

Solving your problems is an interesting exercise in lateral thinking. "So you're bored?

I am not untidy," I objected. "I merely surround myself with a plethora of possibilities.

Introverted people who balance their energy have perseverance and the ability to think independently, focus deeply, and work creatively.

Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

Well, my father [Kingsley Amis] was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was young and bold and foolish, otherwise I'd have become too self-conscious and aware of the weight of not having written anything yet.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.