Creativity Quotes - Page 2

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

A deadline is, simply put, optimism in its most kick-ass form. It's a potent force that, when wielded with respect, will level any obstacle in its path. This is especially true when it comes to creative pursuits.

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.