Bob Dylan Quotes

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

I love to be creative.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I believe in creative work.

Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.