Quotes About Creativity

That was the trouble with freethinkers, they had overactive imaginations that made them uncertain.

code could be written to solve the problems. Code could do anything. Code could save the world.

Humans are so fascinating, aren't we? If ten of us are each given our own piano, we'll play eleven different tunes.

He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.

My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing. ? Peter Falk

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

where creativity doesn't drive a company's strategic vision, most often the lowest price will be the winning formula. Success, abundance, a rising standard of living-for individuals, companies, communities, nations-will depend on a capacity to create, invent, and innovate.

Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!" Her

Have you ever been writing something when you just forgot where you were, and what time it was, and you kept diving down deeper into your words? No, it's more like diving down through your words--past them, and way further down into someplace out. In fact, it doesn't matter whether you're naked or not, since the next thing is, you leave your body totally behind and just go off into your mind. A whole other part of your mind.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

La narrativa surge de la violación de la expectativa».

Thinking ish-ly allowed ideas to flow freely.

Hmmph! I can make a better dot than THAT!

Well, maybe I can't draw, but I CAN sign my name

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

As far as I'm concerned, you could send all the cars in the world through a compactor and shoot them out through the stratosphere and put them in orbit around Mars. Except, of course, the taxis that have to be at my disposal when I need them.

You draw something...and you get nothing. The you do the same thing again, but this time you get a star and are praised, how come? ...... It's something to do with time.... You got a star because you spent more time on the second drawing. And spent the time in a particular way. We think they have a plan, and that it has to do with time. ...... There's no such thing as better....The second one just fitted in better with their plan.

The writers see where we're headed before the scientists do. What we discover in nature is not really a matter of what exists; what we find is determined by our ability to understand.

One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given.

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

What he loved about poetry: it could do in a few seconds what a novel did in days. A painting could be like that, too, and a sculpture. But sometimes you wanted something to take days and days.

I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made up constellations. I made a Bear and a Goat but maybe not where they are supposed to be, I made some for the animals that once were, the ones I know about.

Sometimes now I think just making it through a day is the point. Practically a triumph, don't you think? If you don't melt down or kill anyone or just give up? If you happen to be kind, or help someone else, or create something beautiful, well, you've really done something to crow about.