Quotes About Creativity

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

The emperor of China asked his court painter, «What's easy to paint and what's hard to paint?» and the answer was «Dogs are difficult, demons are easy.»

Dogs and horses are difficult; demons and fascinating things are easy". The idea is that painting dogs and horses is difficult because they are so ordinary; demons and grotesque objects, on the other hand, are quite easily depicted.

Getting ideas is like shaving if you don't do it every day, you're a bum.

You can write anything you want on the internet, and it has the potential to become famous

Every human being is a Leonardo da Vinci. The only problem is that he doesn't know it. His parents didn't know it, and they didn't treat him like a Leonardo. Therefore he didn't become like a Leonardo. That's my basic theory.47

My biggest fear is that the world may become drowned in artistic mediocrity.

What impressed me most was how hard [Julia Child] worked, how devoted she was to the "rules" of la cuisine française while keeping herself open to creative exploration, and how determined she was to persevere in the face of setbacks. Julia never lost her sense of wonder and inquisitiveness. She was, and is, a great inspiration.

There is much to be said for the artwork that answers horror by rejecting or transcending it.

Routinization of work, the researchers concluded, does not have to diminish creativity; if it's accompanied by freedom, routine can enhance creativity.

When we treat workaholics as heroes, we express a belief that labor rather than contemplation is the wellspring of great ideas and that the success of individuals and companies is a measure of their long hours.

Pablo Picasso said, "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

if it's accompanied by freedom, routine can enhance creativity.

Software developers have epiphanies on vacation, too:

Beethoven's practice of counting out exactly sixty beans for his morning cup of coffee

And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Pictures that don't make sense are magic. they hold balls of light covered in millions of spells swirled into a cell.

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.