Quotes about Creativity

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

Genius is born-not paid

I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.

Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.