Quotes About Creativity

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Your talent is God's gift to you.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.

Every individual has the potential to be original.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.