Ray Bradbury Quotes

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

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

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

I'm a creator at heart.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

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

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

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

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.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that.

The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

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

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

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

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

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.