Quotes About Creativity

I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded."

Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking...,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

You gotta make your own fun. That's right, listen to that mother of two, she knows what I'm talking about.

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

We have truth in order not to die of art.

So I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can't remember his name, it's P something T something R.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

I use a lot of humor in my writing. But it's completely black humor.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

For my sister's 50th birthday, I sent her a singing mammogram.

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

I want to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real big.