Quotes About Creativity

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.

Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.

People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.

If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.

Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

Without patience, there can be no genius

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

What I really want to do is produce. There isn't much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.