Creativity Quotes - Page 8

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

YOUR WORDS ARE SEEDS. You have the choice to speak life or death. Your words have a nucleus.

They can be magnificent co creations with angels, producing mind silk. Or, they can be the polymers of plastic sheets, suffocating the earth one square inch at a time.

I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour.

The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats.

The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of a passion. The teachers demand hard work from their kids because they know, from personal experience, that creative success requires nothing less.

(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?

Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely, that it is a collection of short stories.

Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the first word written on paper, I give the following advice: Say your essay into a tape recorder and then write it down.

An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

There are many ways to manifest, but the most effective and joyous creators all create in the space of love.