Quotes About Creativity

In art, the best is good enough.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.

I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.

Once you think you have the formula for good design, you're dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.