Quotes About Creativity

Dagboekschrijvers als ik schrijven hun dagboek met de onuitgesproken bedoeling zichzelf als een ander voor zich te kunnen zien… Eigenlijk zijn ze geen dagboekschrijvers, maar zelfportrettisten, of een mengeling van die twee.

The special calling of the artist is to call the world to a kind of rest or remind it of its restlessness

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

He told Clarence S. Brigham, of the American Antiquarian Society, that he had begun translating Dante's "Inferno" before he was married and he liked it so well that he kept right on with it and finished it afterward.

With pen and with pencil we're learning to say Nothing, more cleverly every day.

You're a true poet: but, my dear, If you would hold the public ear, Remember to be not too clear. Be strange, be verbally intense; Words matter ten times more than sense; In clear streams, under sunny skies, The fish you angle for won't rise; In turbid water, cloudy weather, They'll rush to you by shoals together.

The drama is not dead but liveth, and contains the germs of better things.

There are no rules for writing a play. It is easy, indeed, to lay down negative recommendations -- to instruct the beginner how not to do it. But most of these "don'ts" are rather obvious; and those which are not obvious are apt to be questionable. It is certain, for instance, that if you want your play to be acted anywhere else than in China, you must not plan it in sixteen acts of an hour apiece; but where is the tyro who needs a textbook to tell him that?

Fantastic plays, which assume an order of things more or less exempt from the limitations of physical reality, ought nevertheless to be logically faithful to their own assumptions.

Number of Open Mics (NOM)

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

In his terrific book, Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman wrote that the best approach to a good scene is to leave out the beginning and the end (the parts readers can readily guess or that matter least)

You may outgun me, outman me, and outspend me. But I'm a writer. I will outplot you.

What is now proved was once imagined.

Harmony of colouring is destructive of artÖ it is like the smile of a fool.

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

And I made a rural pen,And I stain'd the water clear,And I wrote my happy songsEvery child may joy to hear.