In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
Creativity is an amazing human characteristic, which is more connected with curiosity than with knowledge.
Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.A man had a choice, after all. He devoted his life to his work or to his wife and children and home....
Failure taught him that he could have made the right choice. I could have tried.
Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.
Our creativity is a universe within this universe, certainly a much bigger one!
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.
In writing there is art - and in art there is craft ...
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving experience of rank differences. The work of art is even allowed to 'tell' us, those who have run away fr...
Everything I’ve ever written has brought me into being. Every project has matured me in a different way. I am who I am today precisely because of what I have made, and what it has made me into. Creati...
The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I see that as a kind of new wealth that counts for more than ownin...
Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.
You Russians like to think you're poets but perhaps you're just touchy.
I write because there are things in me that cannot die.
Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.
Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?
Children are less easily frightened than we are.... they all understand princesses, of course. Haven't they all been badly bruised by peas?
If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band?