Creativity Quotes

"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality" "Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own." "The hardest thing is to sit down and write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance." "Creative work is a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got." "If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method" "Keep a diary, and someday it’ll keep you." "I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art" "Being an artist doesn’t start because you’re twenty-one, and it doesn’t stop because you’re fifty-one. You are who you are until the day you die." "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results" "The hardest thing about writing is writing" "There's no such thing as a perfect book" "Make good art" "Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading." "The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday" "The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary is that it be interesting." "The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of having imagination is to have a sense of life." "In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior" "If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards" "You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the art goes out of it"