Edward Albee Quotes

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

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.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

Creativity is always from the beyond.

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

I'm very creative, intuitive - I like to entertain.

I'm not judging the films. People make these connections through a film, or because they know them. But the fact that they erase them and have to start from scratch, I think that's an important point. A lot of kids, when they have a camera, have tended to do remakes of existing films. You have a lot of kids that make Star Wars. And I think that's creativity, but not as much creativity as starting from scratch.

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

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

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

Creativity is just connecting things.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.