Quotes About Creativity

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.

The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT!

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

Make today your master piece.

Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.