Creativity Quotes

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious" "Acting is happy agony." "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true" "We all agree that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct" "I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like." "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." "We must use time creatively and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right" "In a time of destruction, create something" "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." "5: And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." "8: One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." "I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public I can somehow cure my own legend" "I am not sick I am broken But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint" "Language is the dress of thought" "A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial until finally it becomes what everybody knows" "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book" "No man was ever great by imitation" "What I cannot create, I do not understand" "Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."