Quotes about Creativity

Of all the ages of civilization, this is the most favorable for the development of the imagination, because it is an age of rapid change.

Fortunate, indeed, is the person who has discovered how to give sex emotion an outlet through some form of creative effort, for he has, by that discovery, lifted himself to the status of a genius.

Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

Millions of children have had their imagination dwarfed and retarded by parents who removed as much as possible of the urge of necessity. By "making it easy" for your child you may be depriving the world of a genius. Bear in mind the fact that most of the progress that man has made came as the result of bitter, biting NECESSITY!

And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the echoes, you may evoke some monstrosities.

Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.

It's just that I can write something nice is what motivates me.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.