Quotes About Creativity

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

A missanga, todos a vêem. Ninguém nota o fio que, em colar vistoso, vai compondo as missangas. Também assim é a voz do poeta: um fio de silêncio costurando o tempo.

And that is what a writer is—a traveller between identities, a smuggler of souls.

Lembra-se do tempo em que eu passava tardes e tardes costurando? - Lembro-me, mãe. Eram tantas filhas, tantas roupas! - A maior parte das vezes, eu só fingia que costurava. - Fingia? Fingia para quê? Os homens não gostam que as mulheres pensem em silêncio. Nascem-lhes nervosas suspeitas. - Enquanto ia costurando, o seu pai não imaginava que eu estava pensando. Minha cabeça viajava por todo o lado.

Aos 10 anos todos nos dizem que somos espertos, mas que nos faltam ideias próprias. Aos 20 anos dizem que somos muito espertos, mas que não venhamos com ideias. Aos 30 anos pensamos que ninguém mais tem ideias. Aos 40 achamos que as ideias dos outros são todas nossas. Aos 50 pensamos com suficiente sabedoria para já não ter ideias. Aos 60 ainda temos ideias mas esquecemos do que estávamos a pensar. Aos 70 só pensar já nos faz dorrmir.

As ideais, todos sabemos, não nascem na cabeça das pessoas. Começam num qualquer lado, são fumos soltos, tresvairados, rodando à procura de uma devida mente

está-se escritor, não se é escritor. (...) o caminhar de um leão é uma dança em busca de corpo, o seu olhar foi feito para nos paralisar e nos roubar os sentidos. (...) O escritor faz?se como todas as pessoas se fazem: olhando o mundo como se fosse pela primeira vez e descobrindo no Tempo algo que pode ainda ser estreado.

Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.

When one goes to be introduced to the king, one must be ready to wear something that would scare small children ... Just you wait. We're off to concoct a monstrosity, dearest, a monstrosity. I must tell you, it is quite fun. We shall stand in the middle of the room and anything that we see which we would never dream of putting on a dress, we shall sew right into every seam! Bells and porcelain cherries. And, oh, we mustn't forget all that goes on underneath!

I just used a very simple way to explain what are deep ideas, and why can't that be literature?

El libro es pues la morada "natural" de los exiliados, su consuelo. Y, más allá de eso, una oportunidad de transformar el exilio en ventaja, de darle valor creativo.

I write the books I want to write. I'm delighted if they sell well and I'm not expecting my publishers to just keep giving me money, but there's no way I want to bow to commercial pleasure. I mean, there's plenty of people publishing very good commercial stuff. If my stuff is commercial that's great, but it's not why I write.

Love goes on. The love of friends. Friendship is my oxygen. I've said that often and it's true. Writing goes on too: I keep on building my paper house; my chrysalis

No corner of PARC generated anything like the Kay group's free-wheeling mania. "It was an amazingly seductive environment," recalled Merry. "I was there late at night all the time. People were so full of ideas and excitement, and of course everybody knew more than anybody else about how the world was supposed to be.

Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..]

A book is from your heart and mind, it is your love put to words.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spirit... -Calvin Johnson

for instance. "When we say 'World Domination,' " Pavitt explained, "we're saying, 'Fuck you, we're from Seattle, and we don't care if the media machines are in L.A., we're going to create our own.

Boon and Watt had the bad—or perhaps good—fortune to come of age during one of rock's most abject periods. "That Seventies stuff, the Journey, Boston, Foreigner stuff, it was lame," Watt says. "If it weren't for those type of bands we never would have had the nerve to be a band. But I guess you need bad things to make good things. It's like with farming—if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

With their less-than-rudimentary musicianship, Beat Happening might have been making a conceptual point, but it was also the best they could manage.

Punk rock was an idea, not a musical style.

believe in music in that way—if you want something to happen, you write a song about it.