Quotes About Creativity

What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

If everybody's thinking the same thing, then nobody's thinking.

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

I make sure that my pictures are not too erotic and that they always have a trace of humor. I make sure they are 'in good taste.' Either you understand it or not.

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.

Unlikely things to see in a Valentine's card - "I may be dyslexic but that doesn't mean I don't vole you."

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

I want to get a job naming kitchen appliances. That seems easy; refrigerator, toaster, blender. You just say what the thing does and add "er".

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze 'em?

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels.

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower.

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.