Quotes About Creativity

Take thy plastic spade, It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants, They are thy colours.

I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"]

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William McDonough

I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language," Hunter wrote. "I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.

I secretly worship God," Hunter wrote near the end of his life. "He had the good judgment to leave me alone to write a few genuine black-on-white pages by myself.

Itu cita-citamu? Menjadi penyair?" "Tidak. Aku tidak punya bakat untuk itu." "Apa bakatmu?" "Aku tidak tahu. Tidak semua orang punya bakat?" "Benar. Meski orang-orang mengatakan sebaliknya.

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Art is like hard digging. Without daily searching, nothing can be found. Art is like hard digging. Without daily searching, nothing can be found.

As in zoology, monsters exist in art. It is the pervert of the formation of words, lines, colors, and sounds.

You can not lie in your paintings, because you cannot hide from yourself.

Creativity. Inspiration. We worship them here, Donald. They are our guidance, and we revere them. Do you understand? Revere them. So many people think that writers merely sit down and string together words and poof! a piece of writing. Not so!

You better go to someone else for words. All I know is, there are some drums that sound good together and some that don't. I think we sound good together.

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

E=mc2 is even better than the best poetry: "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Someone might ask, if the dynamic of innovation consists of schema and revision, where does true originality come from? Is there no single work we can point to as the ultimate source of this or that new storrytelling strategy? I'm inclined to say there is no such source. Artists working in mass art forms find originality by revising schemas in circulation, or by revising ones that have fallen into disuse.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.