Quotes About Creativity

I don't like to write, but I love to have written.

Empathy is the engine that drives design.

Make money with your mind, not your time.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

Writers are always outsiders and probably ought to be, since only outsiders see things clearly: the people who publish them, or make movies, or produce plays are always richer and more powerful, however successful the writer is.

My father, Vincent, a rumpled Bohemian who had followed his

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

The public has no idea that writing is a disease, and that the writer who publishes is like a beggar who exhibits his sores.

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

The first draft reveals the art; revision reveals the artist.

If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done. Bill James

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

Hunt had thought of the name while watching his children playing with one of the hot novelties of the period, the Wham-O company's high-bouncing Super Ball.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

The machines are too dull when we are lion-poems that move & breathe.

Or the learn rules for the game the sea otters Play in the surf

Whether we know it or not, our lives are acts of imagination and the world is continually re-imagined through us.

Whereas literalists and fundamentalists tend to choose one pole of any dilemma or opposition, whereas modern political parties and religious groups tend towards demonizing each other, the creative individual must be born again and again in the crucible created by the tension between opposing instincts, conflicted feelings, and contrasting ideas.

A genuine education must somehow serve the wings of spirit and imagination that each child brings to life.

Every mistake is a new style.

There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pain? Is that the secret of great art, both human and Melnibonen?