Quotes About Creativity

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

Obsesia premiilor semnific? o frustrare deloc stimulativ?. Crea?ia în art? fiind a solitudinii ?i originalit??ii, nu a onorurilor ?i reclamei...

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

The opposite of war, the true war, is poetry

Art, by overcoming the inhibition and by activating the playful primary process, which is intrinsically easier and more enjoyable than the procedures of normal responsible thought, on both counts effects a saving in psychic expenditure and provides relief from the pressures of reason

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how".

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.

The purest human act, and a model for all human acts, is an informative, creative act which transforms a world that is merely objective, set against us, in which we feel lonely and frightened and unwanted, into a home.

Drama is not a genre for infant prodigies: I can't think of a dramatist who made a major reputation as early as, say, Keats or Rimbaud in lyric poetry.

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.