Quotes About Creativity

There is a way up to the skies, up to the stars, up to the beyond, up the eternity. That way is creating a world where people can think and express their ideas freely! Seek no other way!

There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!

There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!

Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!

Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.

To create a new universal idea is to create a new star in the universe!

To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!

We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!

We find life in art and we find art in life!

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you!

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It's simply a matter of creative accounting.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Liebkind: Hitler. There was a painter. He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon. Two coats!

That's the wonderful thing about the theater. Unlike in the movies where once a movie is finished and released you can't change it, in the theater a show is a living thing. When you realize something is wrong you can actually fix it and mount a new production.

But let's get back to Melvin Kaminsky.

When writing for other comedians, someone once told me, "I want to make it my own." I'd say, "Look, the jokes are written. The relationships are written. First, do it as written. Later you can make it your own." A lot of people don't realize that without a valley, there is no peak. Without information, there is no joke. You've got to set things up.

I didn't realize it but I might have created the first cell phone. Had I patented it, I probably would have made so much money that I wouldn't have had to write this book.

Mary Shelley, who at only nineteen years of age conceived her immortal Gothic novel, Frankenstein. Needless to say, Gene Wilder and I will always be in her debt.

The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others' ideas to be realized.