Quotes About Creativity

But one thing above all gave Bollingen its special quality: silence. Jung was a great one for silence, just as he could on occasion be a torrential talker. The two compensated each other. It was a vital necessity for him to sink himself in profound introversion; this was the fountainhead of helpful and vivifying powers. Creative ideas took shape in the inner and outer stillness.82

Thomas Merton characterized it: "One breaks through the limits of cultural structural religion ... [where one experiences] a kind of limitlessness.... lack of inhibition, ... psychic fullness of creativity, which mark the fully integrated maturity of the 'enlightened self.' "116

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.

The difference between a topflight creative man and the hack is this ability to express powerful meanings indirectly

It requires a certain kind of mind to see the beauty in a hamburger bun.

CONFUSE the Google Street View car by running alongside it dressed as a house.

Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

People tend to forget that play is serious.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.