On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.

As a society we should try to never inhibit another person's creativity. In people like myself, it's all we have.

We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it needs daily exercise.

You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are.

What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.

It is in everyone's interest that every person's creative genius be encouraged and allowed to develop and express.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.

No matter how high you climb, there will always be a room for you to turn your creativity and productivity up some notches.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.