Quotes About Creativity

Julia Cameron's book The Artist's

It is a criterion of love. In moments of decision, we are to try to make what seems to be the most loving, the most creative decision. We are not to play safe, to draw back out of fear. Love may well lead us into danger. It may lead us to die for our friend. In a day when we are taught to look for easy solutions, it is not always easy to hold onto that most difficult one of all, love.

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

What I am saying is that lovely, whimsical, and soulful things happen in a garden, leaving a gardener giddy.

What is clear is that genius, whether it is represented by a Thomas Edison or an Albert Einstein or an Alberto Ramirez, leaves the world a better place.

An idea sparked in the 1960s, a thought experiment, an amusing haiku, is now a thing of metal and glass.

It's tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.

A?ADAR, TREBUIE S?-I PERMITEM TOTUL? În nici un caz: am transforma un sclav care se plictise?te într-un tiran plictisit. Interzicând, oricum c?lim voin?a m?car în direc?ia autocontrolului ?i renun??rii, îi dezvolt?m creativitatea în activit??i pe un teren îngust, îndemânarea de a se sustrage controlului , îi construim sim?ul critic.

There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

jaqueline wilson

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

All human societies contain inventive people. It's just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions, than do other environments.

To me, the perfect date consists of dinner, dancing, and sex with a girl who has no stomach or legs, but does have an overactive sex drive.

I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe, because somewhere, mixed in with all that ink, is the next great American novel. And I'd love nothing more than to drink it.

If two heads are better than one, then what about double chins? On that note, I will help myself to seconds.

I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.

Sometimes I wish Jim Morrison were still alive, because I'd love to see a concert in which "The Doors" opened up for "The Cars.

I want to upholster the inside lining of my nostrils with leather, to have that "new car smell" all the time.

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.

Too bad Americans can't export Awesome, because I have boxes and boxes of the stuff just lying around in my attic.

I want to write a book about shoes that's full of footnotes.

I want to write the Boston Marathon of run-on sentences. And since it'll be so long, I'll replace all the commas with the word Gatorade, to help push people through it.

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.