Creativity Quotes

"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture." "One of the exciting things about being an artist is that you’re able to invent new ways to tell stories that haven’t been told in that way before" "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." "I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize." "The main functions of intelligence are: to invent solutions where there are none, to create orders where it is chaos, to simplify where it is complexity, to establish connectedness where things are otherwise disconnected" "To understand is to discover, or reconstruct by rediscovery, and such conditions must be complied with if in the future individuals are to be formed who are capable of production and creativity and not simply repetition" "To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme " "God keep me from ever completing anything This whole book is but a draught nay but the draught of a draught " "I don't like to stop, I'm a living photo, I'm a walking movie, I am a cinema" "I’m just trying to make music everybody can get something from." "Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth" "Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction" "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks." "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere." "One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines."