creativity quotes

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Never regret what you don’t write.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.