Quotes About Creativity

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

The stuff that dreams are made of is often difficult to express in words but may be imaginable as pictures in your head. Elizabeth Sanders, Generative Tools for CoDesigning

Unfortunately, the proximity of art and history has little influence on those who govern

Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.

On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.

How utterly fearless we can be in our imaginations until faced with a reality we cannot possibly conceive.

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.

The best thing is that everything that you make in Scratch can be stored directly on your computer or you can upload it on the Scratch website if you want to get feedback from other users.

You imagination is more important than your knowledge.

God will give you new pictures. Instead of going back into your memory, let God move you into your future through your imagination. Your Memory Replays Your Past; Your Imagination Preplays Your Future

When I hear people complain about fame, it always sounds to me like, "Why do they pay me in gold bars? Gold bars are so heavy." But fame is not creativity, it's the industrial disease of creativity. Fame is a real experience, but it's not a Canadian experience, and nothing about growing up in Canada prepares you for a public life.

Do not say to yourself, "I've got a book in me!" (huge cliché anyway) and assume that means you are also competent to write a book.

There's no law against writing a boring book…but there ought to be.

The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

He also cut another bit we liked—a character named Gravy Wallace who loved gravy. That was it—Gravy Wallace loved gravy. Maybe the showrunner was right and it was stupid. But maybe Gravy could've been the next Disco Stu.

Comedy, like composting, involves smart recycling.

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.