Creativity Quotes, page 2

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'”

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“Libraries were full of ideas, perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”

“Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.”

“Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”

“Those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.”

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”

“It means "Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of Our Enemies Since 1234."”

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

“You get a little moody sometimes, but I think that's because you like to read. People who like to read are always a little fucked up.”