Quotes About Creativity

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

All great writers are actors, even merely competent ones are. They have the actor's capacity for getting inside the skins of their leading characters and transfiguring them- whatever they may be, even murderers- with what they can give of themselves. They do that quite as much as actors do.

Even if the good old days never existed, the fact that we can conceive of such a world is, in fact, an affirmation of the human spirit. That the imagination of man is capable of creating the myth of a more open, more generous time is not a sign of our folly.

If one is fashionable for the greater part of one's career, one will produce second-class work. Perhaps by chance one will arrive at being a success but this means that one is a follower and not an innovator. An artist should lead, blaze trails.

Shakespeare was a popular artist. Dickens was a popular artist. The artists I personally have always enjoyed the most are popular artists. I wish I were one - but I'm not. I'm more like Celine - writing away at books no one ever reads.

To crudely paraphrase a far more elegant apology than ours: Piece out our imperfections with your mind; think - when we speak of whale-boats, whales and oceans, that you see them - for 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our stage; jumping o'er time; turning the accomplishments of many years into an hour-glass...

Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

I'm going to paint too. I'm going to paint pictures of ghosts and devils and horses out of hell.

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

I drew with extremely excessively depressed emotions, deliberately penning each line, only to earn money for drink.

When an artist is pumped up with the intention of creating a masterpiece, however, the work generally comes out poorly,

I wanted to write only what I wanted to write.

The "literary world" was a place I was grateful for, and blessed, I thought, were those who could spend their lives there.

Après avoir eu peur des fantômes innombrables créés, non par le monde, mais par les individus, je n'étais plus, comme auparavant, en proie à l'anxiété où me plongeait toutes choses. Prêt à faire face aux nécessités de l'heure, j'agissais avec une certaine audace.

This was how I happened to invent my clowning.

I live solely on my writing now. On signing the registers at inns when I travel, I have no hesitation about listing "writer" as my occupation. If I suffer, I don't talk much about it much. I may suffer even more than before, but I wear a smile.

I'm afraid I don't really have a clear understanding of the psychology of the powerful- particularly the absolutely invincible variety, which I've never met or known to exist. I'm a story writer with such feeble imaginative powers that unless I myself have experienced something, I can't write one line- I can't write a word- about it.

Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures.

African culture inspired African American culture, however African American culture inspires world culture!